Backend Engineer, Core

Software powers the world, and LaunchDarkly empowers all teams to deliver and control the best software. As a Backend Engineer, you will help us build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems.

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 familiarity with networking technologies (TCP, HTTP, websockets, server-sent events, etc.)

One of our company values is 'Widen the Circle'. Which means we seek out diversity of perspectives to get better results. We understand everyone has their own unique talents and experiences. We encourage you to apply to this role even if you don’t think you meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above. We can find out together if it's the right match for your skillset.

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