Rapid7 - Senior Software Engineer - Java

About the Role :

The Senior Software Engineer is a part of our Product and Engineering team who are at the forefront of keeping our customers safe from attacks and breaches. In this role you will be focussed on helping our customers seamlessly manage their security solutions as effectively and efficiently as possible, and ensuring our products are delivering a secure experience. You will have the opportunity to further broaden your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced Engineers, whilst getting the opportunity to mentor others.

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 in your areas of expertise

- Take an active role in the 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

- Continue to develop a deep understanding of our products in order to support our customers

- Work with Practice specific technologies

The skills youll bring include :

- 5+ years experience in software development using Java. Experience using any of the following :

- Java Spring Boot

- Dependency Management Tools such as Maven

- Experience in Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, etc.)

- Security Vulnerability Scanning such as Snyk or Trivy

- Testing frameworks such as JUnit

- Github Actions or Jenkins

- Cloud Infrastructure such as AWS

- 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 excellent written and verbal communications skills both within the team and cross functionally

- Passionate about delighting customers, puts the customer needs at the forefront of all decision making

- Excellent attention to detail

- Demonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. Thats 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 dont be shy - apply today.