Senior Software Engineer, Backend

RapidSOS is a leading public safety AI company that creates technology to power smarter emergency operations and save lives. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop scalable, reliable backend systems for their B2B platform, focusing on real-time data and mission-critical workflows.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $155,000 - $185,000/yr

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of new features, leveraging Python
• Lead strategic architectural decisions, help drive alignment, and optimize applications for performance, scalability, and accessibility
• Use best-in-class software development practices (unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, monitoring, detailed functional specification and test plans) to ensure RapidSOS's products remain highly reliable and fault tolerant
• Identify opportunities to assess and enhance current applications, including refactoring code and upgrading technologies used
• Collaborate in an agile environment with stakeholders across Engineering, Design, GTM, and Product to develop solutions for RapidSOS products
• Leverage modern AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor or similar) to accelerate delivery and improve code quality
• Actively participate in code reviews and standups, sharing knowledge, championing best practices, and contributing to the continuous improvement of team processes
• Own meaningful parts of our platform, have an impact, grow with the company

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend experience with deep expertise in Python
• Strong experience building asynchronous, event-driven systems using message bus technologies such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, etc.
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and delivering comprehensive end-to-end solutions in an AWS environment
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases
• Ideally has experience building AI-driven features or using AI tools to enhance acceleration of development, and is proactive about leveraging emerging technologies
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; is a team player with a positive attitude
• Highly self-motivated; ability to adapt and learn quickly in a fast-paced environment with a strong sense of ownership
• Strong proficiency in coding best practices – ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code
• Customer-centric mindset; cares deeply about delivering solutions that enable and delight customers while meeting product goals
• Demonstrated expertise in problem solving – from troubleshooting issues to debugging a large codebase
• Ability and willingness to collaborate in-person a few times per quarter, or as needed

Benefits

• The chance to work with a passionate team on solving one of the largest challenges globally
• Competitive salary and benefits and equity participation
• A dynamic, flexible and fun start-up work environment with a highly talented team

Additional Information

• Starting pay for a successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include experience, relevant skills, training, education, location, business needs, or market demands. The salary range for this role is $155,000 - $185,000. This role will also be eligible to receive equity options.