Senior Software Engineer, LaunchDarkly
JS SDK
$158-257k
Salary is dependent on location. Offers RSUs
Feature management for software teams
Be an early applicant
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$158-257k
Salary is dependent on location. Offers RSUs
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrable experience building libraries and packages used by other developers
- 5+ years of full stack JavaScript experience, preferably familiar with multiple Javascript frameworks
- Polyglot background— fluent in JavaScript, TypeScript, and at least one other language, with an ability to context switch between languages quickly
- Strong computer science fundamentals
- Committed to working in a communicative, collaborative environment
- Self‐starter and problem solver, willing to solve difficult problems and work independently when necessary
- Strong testing background: experience building unit, integration, load tests, and benchmarks
- Experience writing production-ready code with emphasis on quality and maintainability
- Experience contributing to open-source software
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer on LaunchDarkly’s SDK team, you will build the primary touchpoint that our customers interact with on a daily basis. You’ll work with multiple technologies across our 35+ SDKs while enabling customers of all kinds to feature flag their code
- When working on our SDKs, you’d be contributing to much more than thin client wrappers. Our SDKs are feature-rich agents with strong emphases on performance, concurrency, and resiliency - all while following idiomatic practices for their tech stack
- LaunchDarkly serves trillions of feature flags daily to customers all around the globe, and every flag is handled by our SDKs. This team has a major impact not only on our company, but on our customers (and their customers). We are growing fast and we need your help writing the next chapter in our story
- Contribute to SDK development for JavaScript (Node Server, React, etc) and other supported platforms
- Ensure LaunchDarkly’s SDKs evolve with the rapidly advancing JavaScript ecosystem to deliver modern development experiences to our customers
- Keep up to date with the latest JavaScript development practices for both front-end and back-end ecosystems
- Become the main engineer responsible for the suite of JavaScript-based SDKs provided by LaunchDarkly
- Collaborate with our engineering and product teams to drive the implementation and release of major features
- Actively maintain our open-source repositories
- Identify areas of improvement and advocate for best practices
- Have an active voice in shaping both technology and product decisions
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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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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