Senior Backend Engineer

About you

• 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.

Bonus

• You have experience in Python.
• You have experience in PostgreSQL.
• You have experience building SDKs.
• You have shipped a mobile app with in-app purchases.
• You have some experience with React and SPA applications.

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.