Senior Software Engineer Prague, Praha

Senior Software Engineer

We are expanding our global footprint into Prague and are looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer. You should be ready to provide technical guidance and mentoring to the team while understanding the trade-offs between technical, UX, and product needs. You should excel in interacting and negotiating with key stakeholders, leading to solutions that take all of these needs into account.
**About the Team**:
Our Product and Engineering team works with our award-winning products to help us create a single experience to help customers assess risk, detect threats and automate their security programs at over 10,000 organizations. These teams use best-in-class technology, leading-edge research, and broad, strategic expertise to develop new products and features, and enhance existing features, in order to create value for customers across the world.
Join us in fortifying digital resilience by becoming a part of our engineering team working on InsightVM. Our Intelligent Vulnerability Management solution ensures real-time visibility, risk prioritization, and automated remediation. Experience enhanced security, operational efficiency, and compliance assurance.
Help us build and innovate great products on our Insight platform using the latest technologies to make the world a safer digital space.
**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. This role will focus on developing the Nexpose Scan Engine. The Scan Engine utilises network scanning techniques to discover customer assets and then runs vulnerability and/or policy assessments. You will have the opportunity to further broaden your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced engineers while getting the opportunity to mentor others.
**In this role, you will**:
- Write code and solve problems to build, maintain, and release our products. 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
- Work with customer support teams to diagnose and resolve customer issues
**The skills you’ll bring include**:
- A minimum of **5** years experience in software development using Java or other Object Oriented language (e.g. C++, C#)**
- Experience working with protocols from multiple layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model (e.g. Network, Transport, and Application)
- Strong analytical skills. Comfortable debugging complex problems and providing creative solutions
- Experience working with Unix tool sets, e.g. comfortable working on the command line
- Comfortable working across multiple Operating Systems (Linux, Windows, MacOS)
- Passionate about delighting customers, puts the customer needs at the forefront of all decision-making
- Excellent attention to detail
- Demonstrable experience in delivering complex solutions to customers
- 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
- Solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills both within the team and cross-functionally
***About Rapid7**:
Rapid7 is creating a more secure digital future for all by helping organizations strengthen their security programs in the face of accelerating digital transformation. Our portfolio of best-in-class solutions empowers security professionals to manage risk and eliminate threats across the entire threat landscape from apps to the cloud to traditional infrastructure to the dark web. We foster open source communities and cutting-edge research-using these insights to optimize our products and arm the global security community with the latest in attacker methods. Trusted by more than 10,000 customers worldwide, our industry-leading solutions and services help businesses stay ahead of attackers, ahead of the competition, and future-ready for what’s next.

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