Senior Software Engineer, Backend

New York City (Remote) or Boston (Remote)

At Rapid

SOS, we are committed to using technology to build a safer, stronger future and working together to save lives. We’re in an exciting phase of growth, welcoming new members from across the globe to our mission‑driven, ambitious, and inclusive team. Our work is founded on our values of trust and safety, pioneering, urgency, and purpose over pride, all of which support a company culture where people can innovate, collaborate, grow, and, above all, make an impact.

If that sounds like an exciting opportunity, we want to hear from you!

Rapid

SOS is an intelligent safety platform that harnesses artificial and human intelligence to fuse life‑saving data from 600M+ connected devices, apps, and sensors from 210+ global technology companies, then delivers it to over 22,000+ public safety agencies in 11 countries. Powered by Rapid

SOS HARMONY, the industry’s first purpose‑built AI for public safety, Rapid

SOS empowers first responders with real‑time intelligence and the situational awareness needed to help protect property and save lives.

Are you passionate about building reliable, scalable backend systems that power technology with real‑world impact? At Rapid

SOS, we’re transforming emergency response with innovative technology that delivers critical, life‑saving data to dispatchers covering 99% of the U.S. population. We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join a full‑stack team building the next wave of intelligent emergency technology. In this role, you’ll design and develop modern backend services, APIs, and data workflows that ensure critical information reaches telecommunicators quickly, accurately, and reliably in their most urgent moments.

• Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of new features for Rapid
  
  SOS UNITE—a Python-based application that handles an average of 500,000 emergency calls daily
• 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 Rapid
  
  SOS' products remain highly reliable and fault tolerant
• Collaborate in an agile environment with stakeholders across Engineering, GTM, Design, and Product to develop solutions for Rapid
  
  SOS products
• Actively participate in code reviews and stand‑ups, sharing knowledge, championing best practices, and contributing to the continuous improvement of team processes
• Identify opportunities to assess and enhance current applications, including refactoring code and upgrading technologies used
• Leverage modern AI development tools (i.e. Claude Code or similar) to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and raise the overall impact of the team
• Own meaningful parts of our platform, have an impact, grow with the company

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience with deep expertise in Python
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and delivering comprehensive end‑to‑end solutions in an AWS environment
• Experience working with relational and non‑relational databases and message bus systems (Rabbit
  
  MQ, Kafka, SQS)
• 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

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