Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RapidSOS is the leading public safety AI company that unlocks mission-critical intelligence for first responders and security teams. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build scalable, reliable backend systems that power their B2B platform, ensuring high-performance and resilient systems in critical moments.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of new features, leveraging Python and TypeScript
- Lead strategic architectural decisions, help drive alignment, and optimize applications for performance, scalability, and accessibility
- Use best-in-class software development practices (unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, monitoring, detailed functional specification and test plans) to ensure RapidSOS' products remain highly reliable and fault tolerant
- Identify opportunities to assess and enhance current applications, including refactoring code and upgrading technologies used
- Collaborate in an agile environment with stakeholders across Engineering, Design, GTM, and Product to develop solutions for RapidSOS products
- Leverage modern AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor or similar) to accelerate delivery and improve code quality
- Actively participate in code reviews and standups, sharing knowledge, championing best practices, and contributing to the continuous improvement of team processes
- Own meaningful parts of our platform, have an impact, grow with the company
Skills
- 5+ years of professional backend or full-stack engineering experience with deep expertise in Python and proficiency with React & TypeScript
- Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and delivering comprehensive end-to-end solutions in an AWS environment
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases and message bus systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS SQS / SNS)
- Ideally has experience building AI-driven features or using AI tools to enhance acceleration of development, and is proactive about leveraging emerging technologies
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills; is a team player with a positive attitude
- Highly self-motivated; ability to adapt and learn quickly in a fast-paced environment with a strong sense of ownership
- Strong proficiency in coding best practices – ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code
- Customer-centric mindset; cares deeply about delivering solutions that enable and delight customers while meeting product goals
- Demonstrated expertise in problem solving – from troubleshooting issues to debugging a large codebase
- Ability and willingness to collaborate in-person a few times per quarter, or as needed
- Experience with telephony / VoIP / SIP
- Experience with websockets
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits and equity participation
- A dynamic, flexible and fun start-up work environment with a highly talented team
- This role will also be eligible to receive equity options
Company Overview
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