Backend Engineer

Our platform serves over twenty trillion feature flags daily. The core technologies we use daily include Golang, Redis, and NATS. As part of our you-build-it-you-run-it culture, all developers may be responsible supporting applications in production, including on-call. Off-hours on call is optional and compensated in addition.

• Build and expand our data analysis products and APIs, written in Go, for our new Experimentation product line.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to deliver user-facing features
• Monitor and improve server-side performance
• Write unit, integration, and load tests as necessary
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Write and review technical proposals
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

• Experience with server-side web development (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang, Node.js)
• Experience building RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with computer science fundamentals such as data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading
• A commitment to working in a communicative and collaborative environment
• You write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability
• You hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
• You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
• A deep understanding of networking technologies (TCP, HTTP, websockets, server-sent events, etc.)

PAY:

Target pay range for a Level 4 in San Francisco/Bay Area: $165,000 - $195,000*

*Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.

LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, degree level, and location.