Senior Backend Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Design, build, ship and support end to end features and products
• - Meet frequently with your team and mentor to get up to speed
• - Setup and familiarize yourself with repositories, task management, the dev environment
• - Implement and ship your first project
• - Familiarize yourself with the RevenueCat dashboards, logging, debugging tools, cloud providers, infrastructure management and general architecture
• - Familiarize yourself with workflows and subscription business concepts
• - Be able to scope and work on projects self-sufficiently
• - Learn the basics of incident response, and be part of the on-call rotation
• - Participate in code reviews, and contribute in other ways (testing, visibility, etc.) to improve reliability and quality of the codebase
• - Understand every product owned by your team
• - Understand and improve many of the codebases that the team works with
• - Review code, create proposals, and contribute to architectural discussions
• - Contribute to the team roadmap and technical direction
• - Be an expert on a couple of your team’s focus areas
• - Have shipped a major product or feature
• - Know all the major components of our system and be able to debug complex issues
• - Have your own initiatives for improving our products, understanding the current issues and priorities
• - Be able to spec and architect medium-large projects, gather feedback and design validation and rollout plans
• - Mentor other engineers joining the team
• - Influence the org to improve general reliability, scalability and performance

Required Skills

• - 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer designing and maintaining complex/large/growing systems
• - Comfortable writing and debugging SQL
• - Love debugging and finding the root cause of production issues
• - Love shipping good products
• - Excellent command of at least one of the mainstream programming languages
• - Know how to ship high quality code using good testing practices in iterative cycles
• - Collaborate well with others and can communicate effectively in a fully-remote culture
• - Proactive
• - Versatile and a fast learner
• - Experience in Python
• - Experience in PostgreSQL
• - Experience with the Stripe SDK or other payment providers
• - Some experience with React and SPA applications

Benefits

• - Competitive equity in a fast-growing, Series C startup backed by top-tier investors, including Y Combinator
• - 10-year window to exercise vested equity options
• - Fully remote and flexible work environment
• - 4-5 weeks of suggested time off annually for mental, physical, and emotional recharge
• - $2,000 USD for workspace setup and $1,000 USD annual stipend for continuous learning