Principal Software Engineer

As a Principal UI Software Engineer, you’ll create, set and influence the technical direction of our software and architecture through direct hands-on development by designing effective, scalable architectures for their products/services’ teams areas of ownership. You are an innovative, self-motivated contributor who takes on research and proposes major new technologies within a product line. By fostering relationships with cross-functional partners, you will contribute to the development of technical strategy. You’ll help grow other software engineers through technical mentorship and guidance.

About the Role

• Build, maintain, and release our well architected services by writing correct and clean code consistently and following best practices and conventions. You will recognize and make technical trade-offs with respect to your team’s product/components within the whole Rapid7 platform
• Be involved in the creation, 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
• Deeply understand our products and make high impact decisions to support our customers
• Work with Practice specific technologies

• A minimum of 12 years experience in software development using modern frameworks like React, Angular or .
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Cloud Based Architecture Experience. Experience with cloud-based architectures, microservices design, and potentially specific cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• 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 the ability to clearly convey objectives and rationale whilst fostering commitment from others both within the team and cross functionally
• Brings a customer-first mindset to engineering, and integrates customer impact into everyday decision making
• Excellent attention to detail
• Demonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers
• Demonstrable experience of instigating continuous delivery and continuous integration patterns
• Core Value Embodiment: Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success