Frontend Engineer, LaunchDarkly
Experimentation
$167-208.7k
Office located in Oakland, CA
Feature management for software teams
Job no longer available
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$167-208.7k
Office located in Oakland, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has opinions about what we build and how we build it, and wants to be involved in the whole product development lifecycle
- 6+ years of experience as a frontend software developer or equivalent demonstrable skills and experience
- Experience building data-focused products such as experimentation platforms, analytics dashboards, or large-scale data visualizations
- Knowledge of experimentation methodologies (e.g., A/B testing, multivariate testing) and best practices
- Proficiency with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, such as React
- Experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs
- Experience building and maintaining large-scale production systems
- Ability to thrive in a communicative and collaborative environment on a distributed team across multiple time zones
- Demonstrated ability to write clean, well-documented, and testable code with a focus on maintainability and extensibility
- Working knowledge of networking technologies, including TCP, HTTP, WebSockets, and server-sent events
What the job involves
- LaunchDarkly is seeking an experienced Frontend Engineer who is familiar with experimentation or other data-focused products to join our Experimentation team
- The Experimentation team is responsible for building the feature set that allows customers to setup, manage, and view results of experiments
- As a developer-focused toolset, we value product minded engineers at LaunchDarkly
- You’ll be joining our team of backend, frontend, and fullstack engineers along with multiple product managers, data scientists, and designers, to build an experimentation product that earns the trust of even the most discerning data scientist while remaining accessible to those new to experimentation
- Design, build, and maintain scalable frontend solutions for experimentation and data-driven products, focusing on usability, performance, and maintainability
- Partner closely with product managers, other engineers, data scientists, and designers to drive the implementation and release of business-impacting feature changes
- Resolve decisions of feature prioritization, technical design, and product functionality utilizing a deep understanding of frontend technologies, experimentation platforms, and internal dogfooding
- Proactively and incrementally improve product and code beyond assigned work
- Actively mentor and support colleagues across the organization
- Write and review technical proposals, decomposing large projects into iterative releases
- Conduct code reviews, providing feedback to improve the code and the engineers writing it, focusing on reusability, performance, and maintainability
- Write unit and integration tests for all new features and load tests for performance-critical components
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in frontend development, experimentation, and data-driven products, and actively propose and implement improvements to tools, processes, and methodologies
Our take
Feature flags are a powerful software development tool, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code, therefore minimizing risk. If a business has a new feature they want to test, they can then roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live. These companies can, for example, get quick feedback on the new feature and fix any bugs, or roll back any changes.
LaunchDarkly allows companies to run tests like this by activating the new code for only a small set of users prior to launch. Typically running these tests requires lots of developer time - a daunting and expensive prospect for most rapidly growing businesses - and can risk disruption to the user experience if testing takes place on the live product.
The platform is used by more than 1,500 customers, including the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Signalling a change in strategy, the company shook up its management in 2023 and is now aiming to scale its already strong growth under the leadership of Dan Rogers, a product and marketing specialist with an impressive track record at Rubrik, AWS and Microsoft. It is now well poised to develop into a leading business in the feature management space.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
LATE VC
Total funding: $330.3m
Company benefits
- Full Vision
- Full Dental
- Full Medical
- Flexible Schedule
- Healthy Lunches & Snacks
- Conference & Meetup Access
- Education Stipend
- Personalized Work Station
- Close to Public Transportation
- Bike Parking
- Team Activities
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Lakeside, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Edith Harbaugh
(Executive Chair)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
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