Backend Engineer, Monetization

Summary

Join LaunchDarkly's Billing and Internal Systems team and build, maintain, and enhance solutions supporting core monetization strategies. Collaborate with stakeholders from Revenue, Finance, and Product teams to influence company operations and improve customer-facing billing and usage systems. Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security. Build and deliver new features, focusing on reliability, speed, and minimal latency. Continuously improve system performance, troubleshoot bottlenecks, and optimize code. Monitor and enhance system resilience, proactively addressing potential vulnerabilities. Work closely with frontend engineers for seamless integration. Use in-depth evaluation to determine optimal solutions for complex engineering problems. This role requires a passion for translating complex business needs into simple, detail-oriented solutions and a commitment to precision and data integrity.

Requirements

• You should have have 5 or more years of Backend engineering experience
• Demonstrable experience with server-side web development (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang)
• Experience building RESTful APIs
• Experience building and maintaining large-scale production systems
• Familiarity with computer science fundamentals such as data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading
• A commitment to working in a communicative and collaborative environment
• You write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability
• You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
• A familiarity with networking technologies (TCP, HTTP, web sockets, server-sent events, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security for Billing and Internal Systems
• Build and deliver new features, ensuring they meet the functional and technical requirements, while keeping an eye on performance and user experience
• Design robust and scalable APIs to support new and existing features, focusing on reliability, speed, and minimal latency
• Continuously improve system performance, troubleshoot bottlenecks, and optimize code for maximum efficiency, ensuring minimal downtime
• Monitor and enhance the resilience of our systems, proactively identifying and addressing potential vulnerabilities and performance issues
• Work closely with frontend engineers to ensure smooth integration between backend systems and user interfaces
• Use in-depth evaluation of variable factors to determine optimal solutions for complex engineering problems, balancing innovative approaches with practical constraints

Benefits

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary