Software Architect, Backend

RapidSOS is seeking a Software Architect, Backend to design and evolve the real-time, globally distributed platform that connects 600M+ devices, apps, and sensors directly to public safety. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of professional engineering experience, including leading architectural initiatives, with deep expertise in Python.

Requirements

• Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of the next generation of RapidSOS UNITE— the platform that brings real time data and AI driven intelligence to public safety
• Lead strategic architectural decisions and align teams while designing real-time, low-latency systems that ingest, process, and respond to sensor, call, and AI data with high performance, scalability, and reliability across regions
• Design for global scale with cross-region deployments, failover strategies, and dynamic scaling during high-impact events
• Integrate AI into production systems, ensuring models are deployed, monitored, and continuously improved with real-world data
• Fuse multimodal data (e.g. voice, video, geospatial, sensor feeds) to support real-time decision-making for emergency services
• Iterate fast, identify and assess opportunities to enhance applications, refactor when new information shows a better path, and ensure the codebase stays clean, stable, and ready for continuous evolution
• Collaborate and lead architecture discussions in an agile environment with stakeholders across Engineering, GTM, Design, and Product to develop solutions for RapidSOS products
• Guide and mentor engineers in adopting architectural best practices and best-in-class software development practices, coding standards, and system observability principles like system patterns, performance, and observability
• Work directly with engineering teams and stay hands on in the codebase as you build and iterate on the solutions you design

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Equity participation
• Dynamic, flexible and fun start-up work environment
• Opportunity to work with a passionate team on solving one of the largest challenges globally