Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join RevenueCat, a remote-first, mission-driven company, as a Backend Engineer. You will design, build, and maintain features and products to help developers grow their businesses. This role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience with expertise in SQL and a passion for shipping high-quality products. You'll collaborate effectively in a remote environment, proactively identify and resolve issues, and be a versatile, fast learner. RevenueCat offers a competitive salary, equity, remote work flexibility, generous time off, and a workspace stipend, fostering continuous learning and growth.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer designing and maintaining complex/large/growing systems
• Be comfortable writing and debugging SQL
• Love debugging and finding the root cause of production issues
• Love shipping good products
• Have 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
• Be proactive. When you see something broken, you jump on it to fix it or suggest improvements
• Be versatile and a fast learner

Responsibilities

• Design end to end features and products
• Build end to end features and products
• Ship end to end features and products
• Support end to end features and products
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience in Python
• Have experience in PostgreSQL
• Have experience in ClickHouse
• Have some experience with React and SPA applications

Benefits

• $212,000 USD salary regardless of your location
• Competitive equity in a fast-growing, Series B startup backed by top tier investors including Y Combinator
• 10 year window to exercise vested equity options
• Fully remote work environment that promotes autonomy and flexibility
• Suggested 4 to 5 weeks time off to recharge and focus on mental, physical, and emotional health
• $2,000 USD to build your personal workspace
• $1,000 USD annual stipend for your continuous learning and growth