Senior Backend Engineer

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join one of our Product teams and help build new systems and features, improve our existing infrastructure, and ultimately help developers make more money. 

About you:

• You love making products for developers.
• You have 5+ years of proven experience working as a backend engineer.
• You are comfortable writing and debugging SQL, bonus points if it's PostgreSQL.
• You have experience building web applications with a JavaScript framework, React experience is a plus.
• You have experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs, Python experience is a plus.
• You are a collaborative builder and like to build systems with other engineers in mind.
• You don't scoff at unglamorous engineering tasks, yaks don't shave themselves.
• You are an excellent written and verbal communicator.
• You have deep empathy for the user.
• You know when to seek assistance, and it's typically to discuss tradeoffs.
• Experience building mobile apps is a plus.

In the first month, you'll:

• Get up to speed on our architecture and learn the problem domain
• Implement your first pull request and deploy to our 100's of millions of API consumers
• Begin reviewing code and add to our engineering culture

Within the first 3 months, you'll:

• Scope and implement new functionality in our codebase 
• Learn the basics of incident response, and be part of the on-call rotation
• Make improvements to how we test, review, and ship code to improve quality

Within the first 6 months, you'll:

• Be the most knowledgeable person on several key features
• Help build and make changes to the RevenueCat dashboard
• Know all the major components of our system and be able to debug complex issues
• Have your own initiatives for improving the code base and our infrastructure
• Be able detect bottlenecks, profile, and come up with enhancements

Within the first 12 months, you'll:

• Be able to spec, architect, and build any feature we might want to build
• Mentor other engineers joining the team
• Know more about PostgreSQL than anyone ever should

What we offer:

• $200,000 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