Job Description
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own a full life cycle of development and be a senior contributor on a team responsible for the end-to-end delivery of increasingly complex features that are correctly implemented and high quality. You will take initiative to identify and own solutions to problems, and you will partner with cross-functional teams owning requirements that take into account all parties’ needs. You will act as a resource by advising and mentoring junior engineers to continue to build the technical capabilities of our teams.

About the Team
Our Product and Engineering team works with our award-winning products to help us create a single experience to help customers assess risk, detect threats and automate their security programs at over 10,000 organizations. These teams use best-in-class technology, leading-edge research, and broad, strategic expertise to develop new products and features, and enhance existing features, in order to create value for customers across the world.
The stakes for creating a safer digital world are greater than ever. At Rapid7 we believe it’s our responsibility to show up every day and give our best for our customers and the entire security community. Our global engineering teams are at the centre of this mission and are dedicated to building a complete suite of industry-leading products which provide a cohesive platform for our customers. Our range of solutions spans vulnerability management, detection, automation, cloud security, and penetration testing; in order to build these products our teams work with an array of technologies including Java, Python, AWS and Go, just to name a few.
Join our engineering team to help us build and innovate great products on our Insight platform using the latest technologies to make the world a safer digital space.

In this role, you will:

• Build, maintain, and release our well architected services by writing correct and clean code consistently and following best practices and conventions.
• You will understand and make well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs in your areas of expertise
• Work across the entire tech stack. From infrastructure, to services, to UI components, you will contribute to delivering a best-in-class experience to
• users.
• Take an active role in the design and planning of upcoming features, our engineers are first class stakeholders in all parts of the development process
• When required, partner with internal teams such as UX and Product Management who work deeply with our product to ensure we are understanding
• our customers needs
• Continue to develop a deep understanding of our products in order to support our customers
• Work with Practice specific technologies

The skills you’ll bring include:

• A minimum of 5 years experience in web service development using Javascript (or Typescript), Java, Python, SQL and No-SQL databases, event driven workflows, and CI/CD software development lifecycles
• Experience with libraries such as React, or UI frameworks such as Angular or Vue are a plus, but not essential
• Experience with building distributed architectures using technologies such as AWS, Apache Kafka, Redis, Amazon SQS, or other cloud based
• technologies.
• Experience with using infrastructure as code frameworks such as terraform, jenkins pipeline, etc.
• Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn, with the ability to mentor more junior members of the team
• The attitude and ability to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment
• Collaborative team player who has the ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions
• Strong creative problem solving skills
• Solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communications skills both within the team and cross functionally
• Passionate about delighting customers, puts the customer needs at the forefront of all decision making
• Excellent attention to detail
• Demonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers