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Staff Software Engineer (SDK)

mParticle by Rokt is widely recognized as one of the leading customer data platforms, serving hundreds of global brands and helping them turn data to insights and insights to action. Built on top of end-to-end streaming architecture, we are committed to empowering businesses to deliver personalized and engaging experiences to their customers across all screens and devices. We believe that the opportunity to help teams activate insights from their customer data to deliver more relevant and adaptive experiences is more important than ever. In January 2025 mParticle merged with Rokt and became mParticle by Rokt. Together, our AI and ML-powered Rokt Brain and ecommerce Rokt Network will power more than 6.5 billion transactions, connecting 400 million customers across the world’s leading companies.

We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce, unlocking real-time relevance in the moment that matters most. Rokt’s AI Brain and ecommerce Network powers billions of transactions connecting hundreds of millions of customers, and is trusted to do this by the world’s leading companies.

We are a team of builders helping smart businesses find innovative ways to meet customer needs and generate incremental revenue. Leading companies drive 10-50% of additional revenue—and often all their profits—from the extra products or services they sell. This economic edge unleashes a world of possibilities for growth and innovation.


The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to understand consumers better. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day. It considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams, and gain exposure to a wide range of technology.

At Rokt, we practice transparency in career paths and compensation. At Rokt, we believe in transparency, which is why we have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability. Rokt’stars constantly strive to raise the bar, pushing the envelope of what is possible.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer (SDK)

Target total compensation of $325,000 - $375,000, including a fixed annual salary of $225,000 - $250,000, an employee equity plan grant, and world-class benefits. 

Equity grants are issued in good faith, subject to company policies, board approval, and individual eligibility.

The Developers Tools team is responsible for building world-class tools and experiences on top of mParticle by Rokt’'s APIs. This team is the public face of the engineering team - releasing all tools as open source and often working directly with developers to build idiomatic libraries for their developer environments.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to rethink mParticle by Rokt's external SDKs and build APIs that other engineers will love and rely on. You'll also be able to drive the engineering culture through continual research, self-improvement and internal presentation.  We are looking for someone who demonstrates empathy and sincerity to all roles and teammates. Our ideal candidate has a strong balance of technical and people skills and is a proven mentor and technical leader.

About the role: 

  • Drive the technical and product direction of the Developer Tools team, building multiplatform tools in Kotlin, Swift, and 10+ other languages and platforms for all of mParticle's APIs
  • Mentor and lead engineers of all levels to ensure a high bar for code performance and stability, and advocate for critical infrastructure and software quality initiatives
  • All mParticle SDKs are open source on Github and continuously deployed, and you'll be an owner of many of these repositories
  • Represent the developer voice to the product and broader engineering team
  • Define the team's quality and style guidelines, and encourage those guidelines through in-depth code reviews

About you:

  • 7+ years of experience with web technologies
  • 5+ years experience of mobile development (iOS, Android)
  • Experience with C#/.NET is a big plus
  • A passion for developer experience. You provide feedback when you find incorrect docs and aren't afraid to open issues and PRs against open-source repositories
  • Opinions and a high bar for software quality and availability, and connect the dots between those metrics and your customers' success
  • Ability to engage directly with customers to provide in-depth architectural recommendations when implementing mParticle by Rokt
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience

About Rokt’stars:

As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock real-time relevancy in ecommerce and beyond. Our bias for action means we are not afraid to quickly venture into uncharted territories, take risks, or challenge the status quo; in doing so we either win or learn. We work together as one aligned team never letting egos get in the way of brilliant ideas. We value diversity, transparency, and smart humble people who enjoy building a disruptive business together. We pride ourselves on being a force for good as we make the world better. 

About the Benefits:

We leverage best-in-class technology and market-leading innovation in AI and ML, with all of that being underlined by building and maintaining a fantastic and inclusive culture where people can be their authentic selves, and offering a great list of perks and benefits to go with it:

  • Accelerate your career. We offer roadmaps to leadership and an annual training allowance
  • Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company
  • Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office.
  • Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and great health benefits for you and your dependents.
  • Dog-friendly office
  • Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.) 
  • Work with the greatest talent in town
  • See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London

We believe we’re better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (teams are in the office 4 days per week). We also get that you need to balance your life and your commitments so you have the flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.

We at Rokt choose to create a company that is as diverse and inclusive as the world we live in by attracting, growing & keeping the best talent. Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

If this sounds like a role you’d enjoy, apply here, and you’ll hear from our recruiting team.

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What You Should Know About Staff Software Engineer (SDK), Rokt

Are you ready to take your software engineering career to the next level? Join mParticle by Rokt as a Staff Software Engineer (SDK) and become an integral part of our highly talented Developer Tools team. Here at mParticle by Rokt, we pride ourselves on being a leading customer data platform that enables businesses to turn insights into action. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for creating innovative, multiplatform tools in languages like Kotlin and Swift, working directly with our community of developers and fine-tuning our external SDKs. This role isn’t just about coding; you'll also mentor engineers of varying experience levels and shape our engineering culture through shared knowledge and collaboration. Your expertise in web technologies and mobile development will guide you as you build tools that enhance the developer experience. We celebrate an environment of transparency and growth, offering clear career paths and compensation based on performance. At mParticle by Rokt, your passion for technology and commitment to high-quality software will help us revolutionize ecommerce and change the way companies leverage their customer data. With a target compensation range of $325,000 to $375,000, plus world-class benefits, your journey to innovation starts here. Join us in making a meaningful impact as part of our fast-paced, diverse, and inclusive team!

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We are a growing team of 400+ passionate Rokt’stars intent on unleashing a world of possibilities through relevancy in ecommerce. 10 years ago, Rokt set out to solve a difficult challenge: eliminating the paradox of choice in the transaction mome...

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