Senior Backend Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Regularly engage with your team and mentor to accelerate your onboarding process.

• Set up and become acquainted with repositories, task management tools, and the development environment.

• Execute and deliver your initial project.

• Get to know the RevenueCat dashboards, logging and debugging tools, cloud service providers, infrastructure management, and overall system architecture.

• Understand workflows and concepts related to subscription businesses.

• Be capable of independently scoping and executing projects.

• Acquire foundational knowledge in incident response and participate in the on-call rotation.

• Engage in code reviews, and contribute in various ways (such as testing and enhancing visibility) to elevate the reliability and quality of the codebase.

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of all products managed by your team.

• Improve and comprehend several codebases that the team operates on.

• Review code, draft proposals, and take part in architectural discussions.

• Contribute to the team’s roadmap and its technical strategy.

• Become a specialist in a few key areas of focus for your team.

• Have successfully delivered a significant product or feature.

• Be knowledgeable about all major components of our system and be equipped to troubleshoot complex issues.

• Propose your own initiatives for enhancing our products by understanding the current challenges and priorities.

• Be capable of specifying and architecting medium to large projects, gathering feedback, validating designs, and planning rollouts.

• Guide other engineers who join the team.

• Influence the organization to enhance overall reliability, scalability, and performance.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience working as a software engineer, designing and maintaining complex, large, or growing systems.

• Comfortable with writing and debugging SQL.

• Enjoy debugging and identifying the root causes of production issues.

• Passionate about delivering high-quality products.

• Strong proficiency in at least one mainstream programming language.

• Knowledgeable in shipping high-quality code using effective testing practices in iterative cycles.

• Able to collaborate effectively and communicate well in a fully remote work culture.

• Proactive; when you notice something broken, you take action to fix it or suggest improvements.

• Versatile and quick to learn new concepts.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive equity in a rapidly growing Series C startup supported by top-tier investors, including Y Combinator.

• A 10-year window to exercise vested equity options.

• Fully remote and flexible work environment.

• 4-5 weeks of recommended time off annually for mental, physical, and emotional rejuvenation.

• $2,000 USD for workspace setup and an annual stipend of $1,000 USD for ongoing learning.