Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RevenueCat is a leading monetization platform for mobile applications, helping developers manage and grow their in-app subscriptions. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and support features that enhance developer business growth, focusing on reliability, scalability, and performance.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- You have 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer designing and maintaining complex/large/growing systems
- You are comfortable writing and debugging SQL
- You love debugging and finding the root cause of production issues
- You love shipping good products
- You have excellent command of at least one of the mainstream programming languages
- You know how to ship high quality code using good testing practices in iterative cycles
- You collaborate well with others and can communicate effectively in a fully-remote culture
- You are proactive. When you see something broken, you jump on it to fix it or suggest improvements
- You are versatile and a fast learner
- You have experience in Python
- You have experience in PostgreSQL
- You have experience building SDKs
- You have shipped a mobile app with in-app purchases
- You have 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
- $1,000 USD annual stipend for continuous learning
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