[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @RevenueCat

We are looking for a Backend 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.

• 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 in ClickHouse.
• You've have some experience with React and SPA applications.

• 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.

• $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.