As a Senior Software engineer you’ll get the opportunity to be a hands-on engineer, learning best practice engineering processes and approaches whilst receiving ongoing development through coaching, mentoring and pairing with other engineers on your team. From problem-solving to challenging old ways of thinking, you will have the opportunity to unleash your full potential and creativity whilst working with cutting edge technologies in a dynamic and collaborative team.

The skills you’ll bring include:

• 4-6 years experience in software development using Java(including Java 21+) or other equivalent JVM programming languages
• Hands-on experience with reactive programming, preferably WebFlux
• Experience with common relation database technologies, such Postgres
• In depth practical experience using terraform infrastructure as code.
• Cloud experience is required, AWS is a plus
• Experience working with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, etc) is required
• Experience mentoring junior engineers
• SQL Query optimization experience
• Experience working with multi-model distributed NoSQL databases is a plus e.g. FoundationDb
• Collaborative team player who has the ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions
• Strong creative problem solving skills
• Passionate about delighting customers, puts the customer needs at the forefront of all decision makin

In this role you will be focussed on developing solutions which support the consolidation of data in a data lakehouse and enable cross-product use cases via a scalable query engine. While we expect you to come in and hit the ground running you will have the opportunity to further broaden your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced Engineers, while also mentoring your junior colleagues.

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
• Take a lead role in the design and planning of upcoming features, our engineers are first class stakeholders in all parts of the development process
• Work cross functionally with internal product tech teams, product managers etc to help deliver a shared Data Platform

The skills you’ll bring include:

• 4-6 years experience in software development using Java(including Java 21+) or other equivalent JVM programming languages
• Hands-on experience with reactive programming, preferably WebFlux
• Experience with common relation database technologies, such Postgres
• In depth practical experience using terraform infrastructure as code.
• Cloud experience is required, AWS is a plus
• Experience working with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, etc) is required
• Experience mentoring junior engineers
• SQL Query optimization experience
• Experience working with multi-model distributed NoSQL databases is a plus e.g. FoundationDb
• Collaborative team player who has the ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions
• Strong creative problem solving skills
• Passionate about delighting customers, puts the customer needs at the forefront of all decision making

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That’s because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don’t be shy - apply today.
About Rapid7
At Rapid7, we are on a mission to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by embracing tenacity, passion, and collaboration to challenge what’s possible and drive extraordinary impact.
Here, we’re building a dynamic workplace where everyone can have the career experience of a lifetime. We challenge ourselves to grow to our full potential. We learn from our missteps and celebrate our victories. We come to work every day to push boundaries in cybersecurity and keep our 11,000+ global customers ahead of whatever’s next.
Join us and bring your unique experiences and perspectives to tackle some of the world’s biggest security challenges.

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