Reaktor's award-winning tech community is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our North American team in New York City

If you are in your element when working strategically in a client-facing role with a full software development cycle, have a passion for solving human problems with a holistic approach, and are curious to experience working in a low-hierarchy and autonomous environment, you might just be what we're looking for.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Reaktor, you will solve unique and interesting challenges for our clients across the full software development lifecycle, from front-end to production 

This is a hybrid position, based out of our NYC office.

At Reaktor, we care about our employees and value a sustainable work-life balance and support for your daily life outside of work. This translates to working 40-hours a week, when crunch time happens, it’s consensual, and you’ll get the extra time back to take off later.

Salary: $125-175k + 6% matching 401K and 100% coverage for healthcare, dental, and vision. 

Your daily tasks:

• Focusing on one client at a time, you will partner with their technology and business teams to develop a strong knowledge of their businesses and the challenges they face

• You will be working with huge systems with multiple components and interconnections, learning new languages quickly to aid problem solving… this isn’t just doing tickets!

• You are on a daily fact finding mission to find the information that you need to the solve problems your client is facing

• You will be building specific domain knowledge to understand the business context that drives your client’s decisions further than a specific tech stack 

To thrive in this position, you’ll need to: 

• Be comfortable engaging with the client stakeholders when needed

• Have experience in a broad range of software development modalities (backend, frontend, ops, and consulting skills –functional programming is a plus!)

• Have experience with at least one common server-side programming language. Currently, many of our projects are built with TypeScript/JavaScript and Node.js. But, Java/Scala/Kotlin, Clojure and Python are also used

• Have a strong knowledge of at least one common client-side language and framework. We often use TypeScript/JavaScript and React on our web app projects and Swift, Java/Scala/Kotlin, or TypeScript/JavaScript React-native on mobile

• Demonstrate a know-how on databases, SQL experience is a must! 

• Show a foundational knowledge in DevOps, including Continuous Integration (CI), automated deployment, and test automation

• Have built relevant skills to create new backend services and build CI/CD pipelines when the project requires

• Have CCS experience specifically AWS, optimizing Kubernetes clusters or other set of servers

We don’t have a hard limit with years of experience, but we’ve noticed that these competencies usually take 6-10 years to accumulate.

We’d love to hear about: 

• Your experience working on huge systems with multiple components and interconnections. For example, a git repo of 300GB+, system w/ multiple services, etc. 

• When you have previously gathered requirements from stakeholders/clients  and dealt with uncertainty comfortably

• Your business and product mindset, as it’s helpful when communicating with clients

• Times when you have jumped into older legacy systems sometimes using outdated technologies, and built not built optimally and solved problems and improved the system either through incremental changes or a full transformation 

Why join us?

For two decades, we’ve been developing qualities and capabilities for adapting, reacting, and supporting change – building Reaktor to hold up in a fast-paced environment while ensuring the well-being of our people.

While working at Reaktor, we’ll provide you with: 

• Career development, helping you develop your skills further through guidance and/or courses, and giving you the opportunity to explore your career interests

• Autonomy and ownership over your work, giving you the power to make the changes and decisions that are needed to make an impact

• A community with as much support as your heart desires

• A team that’s not only experienced but considerate as well – they all want you to succeed

• A sustainable work-life balance and support for your daily life outside of work. This means 40 hours a week, hybrid with time spent in our Flatiron office

• An opportunity to grow as a professional. In addition to the day-to-day work, we offer internal training courses, community events, and 15-minute coffee breaks to discuss current industry topics

• Check more benefits & perks on our website.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Together, we are committed to making Reaktor an environment that embraces and values all of our employees for the whole of who they are. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply, knowing that studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they fully satisfy all of the requirements. If you're thinking twice about applying for this reason, we invite you to send us your application anyway. You could be just the person we're looking for.

Read more about our DEI work here.

Interested? Drop us a line – We'll be happy to hear from you!