Junior/Mid-Level Software Engineer

We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. 

Rokt is a global leader in ecommerce, unlocking real-time relevance in the moment that matters most. Rokt's AI Brain and ecommerce Network powers 7.5 billion+ transactions per year for 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.

We are looking for a Junior/Mid-Level Software Engineer

At Rokt, we practice transparency in career paths and compensation. We have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability.

Target compensation will be a fixed annual salary of $100,000 - $150,000 (including superannuation) + employee equity grant plan, and world-class benefits.

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

The Role
Role title: Builder (Engineer)
Team: Network Integrity.

Rokt are are building a team that protects the trust and integrity of our network. As part of the Network Integrity group, you will contribute to projects that ensure the authenticity and quality of the data powering our machine learning systems and client outcomes.

This is an opportunity for entry-level/early career professionals designed to help you grow as an engineer while contributing to meaningful work. You will learn from experienced colleagues and gain hands-on exposure to challenges such as fraud detection, invalid traffic mitigation, and incident response.

No prior experience in network security or fraud prevention is required. You will be supported as you build your skills while working on projects like:

• Identifying unusual traffic patterns using user-agent analysis and IP reputation scoring, and utilising AI tech to protect the Rokt Network
• Helping design systems that filter out invalid/fraudulent traffic and protect the quality of data signals
• Supporting incident response processes to contain and mitigate threats
• Exploring new approaches such as Proof-of-Work checks and closed-loop event validation
• Gaining hands on experience coding in modern backend programming languages, working on AWS microservices in a distributed-systems architecture.
  

This is a chance to develop your craft while working on systems that make a real impact on clients and end users.

Requirements

What you'll do

• Contribute to the design and development of systems that help detect and reduce invalid traffic and fraud
• Work closely with senior engineers to implement foundational protections, including IP reputation, rate limiting, and anomaly detection
• Support the creation of runbooks and tools that enable quick and clear responses to threats
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and data scientists, learning from experienced mentors while contributing your own ideas
• Build your skills in AI/ML integration, large-scale data pipelines, and network security practices while contributing to projects that create measurable value
  

Who you are

• You are curious and motivated to learn new skills, tools, and approaches to engineering
• You enjoy contributing to team-based problem solving, approaching challenges with creativity and persistence
• You thrive in collaborative environments, value open communication, and seek out opportunities to share ideas and learn from others
• You care about the impact of your work, whether it is protecting clients from fraud, ensuring data quality, or improving efficiency across systems
  

Why Join Rokt?

• Impact Across the Business: This role isn’t confined to one team - you will get exposure, and build subject matter expertise, in many areas of the business. You’ll gain a broad view of the company and improve how all teams operate. The solutions you build can save hours of work and drive significant business value.
• Innovate with AI: Be a pioneer in applying AI and automation internally at a company that truly values innovation. If you have creative ideas for using AI, Rokt is the playground to bring them to life.
• Endless Learning: Every project is a new puzzle to solve across different domains, so you’ll constantly expand your expertise in operations, analytics, product, and more. With Rokt’s rapid growth, new challenges and opportunities to learn will never stop coming.
• Empowered Culture: Join a team of owners in a culture that encourages you to act boldly and learn from every experiment. You’ll have autonomy to innovate, support when needed, and recognition when you deliver results.
• Great Environment & Benefits: Work with smart, down-to-earth colleagues in a vibrant, inclusive workplace. Rokt offers transparent career progression, continuous development opportunities, equity ownership, and perks to support your growth and well-being.

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:

• Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company
• Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office. Plus join the gym on us! 
• 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.

Note: The first stage of the recruitment process for this role is to complete a 20-minute online aptitude test as well as an employee personality profile assessment, which will be sent out to your application email. Successful candidates will be contacted to discuss the next steps.