Senior Backend Engineer
Remote
United States, Canada, Europe, United Kingdom
$227,000/yearly
Senior Level
Top Benefits
Competitive equity in Series C startup
Fully remote work environment
4-5 weeks paid time off
About the role
Who you are
- 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 with the Stripe SDK or other payment providers
- You've have some experience with React and SPA applications
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Product Engineer to join our engineering team and help design, build, ship and support end to end features and products that will help developers grow their business
- We want to bring somebody with a product mindset, passionate about shipping products and with an eye for reliability, scalability and performance
- In the first month, you'll:
- 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
- Within the first 3 months, you'll:
- 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
- Within the first 6 months, you'll:
- 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
- Within the first 12 months, you'll:
- 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
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 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
Senior Backend Engineer
Remote
United States, Canada, Europe, United Kingdom
$227,000/yearly
Senior Level
Top Benefits
Competitive equity in Series C startup
Fully remote work environment
4-5 weeks paid time off
About the role
Who you are
- 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 with the Stripe SDK or other payment providers
- You've have some experience with React and SPA applications
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Product Engineer to join our engineering team and help design, build, ship and support end to end features and products that will help developers grow their business
- We want to bring somebody with a product mindset, passionate about shipping products and with an eye for reliability, scalability and performance
- In the first month, you'll:
- 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
- Within the first 3 months, you'll:
- 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
- Within the first 6 months, you'll:
- 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
- Within the first 12 months, you'll:
- 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
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 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