Rapid7 Senior Software Engineer 

United States, Texas, Austin 

490502851

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.

Tech Stack: Java, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

About the Role

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

• Responsible for maintaining the infrastructure configuration. Provide and respond to peer feedback on code and design solutions. Support and maintain existing software and production environment.

• 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 meet our customer needs

The skills you’ll bring include:

• 5+ years experience in software development using Java, Spring framework, MySQL or similar RDBMS, Maven, JUnit, TestNG, or equivalent testing framework

• 3+ years experience with Amazon Web Services

• 3+ years experience using Jenkins, Spinnaker or similar tools

• 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