Backend Engineer, LaunchDarkly
Experimentation Application
$141-229k
+ RSUs, Salary dependent on location
Feature management for software teams
Job no longer available
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$141-229k
+ RSUs, Salary dependent on location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- Sympathetic: You are driven to understand customer mindset and pain points to create an advertising strategy that achieves business goals and meets customer needs
- Team-Oriented: You excel at collaborating across the company. You can move easily between business stakeholders, product development and marketing teams
- Great Communicator: You have a natural ability to build relationships with cross-functional team members and are a master of the written word, with excellent attention to detail
- A Believer: You understand that technology can simplify, delight and enhance our lives and hope to build transformative innovation through your career
- Startup Mentality: You thrive in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment where you balance multiple projects and can prioritize your work both short and long term
- Driven: You are motivated to achieve success both at work and in your personal life
- Commercially Aware: You understand how content ties to business objectives, understand target audience profiles and insights, and incorporate these into effective UX and marketing copy
- 3–8 years of professional software development experience, primarily in backend development
- Experience programming in Go or strong interest and ability to learn it
- Familiarity with designing and consuming RESTful APIs
- Understanding of experimentation methodologies (e.g., A/B testing) and interest in data-informed development
- Solid grasp of software engineering principles, design patterns, and coding best practices
- Exposure to building or maintaining scalable, production-grade systems
- Familiarity with observability practices and tools (e.g., logging, metrics, monitoring)
- Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is a plus
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with a team-oriented mindset
- Comfortable working in Agile development environments
- Experience with CI/CD practices and tools
- Passion for writing high-quality code and continuously improving engineering practices
- A self-motivated approach and willingness to take initiative
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Prior experience working with or contributing to distributed teams is a plus
What the job involves
- LaunchDarkly is seeking a skilled Backend Engineer with experience in experimentation or data-driven products
- You’ll collaborate closely with a cross-functional team of backend, frontend, and fullstack engineers, along with product managers, data scientists, and designers, to help build an experimentation platform that balances power and accessibility
- In this role, you’ll contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, performant services using Go and RESTful APIs, as well as working with our data pipeline
- You’ll have opportunities to take ownership of projects, grow your technical expertise, and help improve the quality and reliability of our systems
- We’re focused on building a best-in-class experimentation platform that enables customers to run impactful, data-driven experiments with ease and confidence, and we’re actively growing the team to deliver on this vision
- We are committed to delivering a leading experimentation platform that empowers our customers to run tests and data-driven experiments seamlessly and at scale
- We have a robust product roadmap, and we are actively expanding our teams to execute on it
- Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable and performant solutions for experimentation and data-driven products, with attention to usability and maintainability
- Collaborate with senior engineers on architectural decisions that impact system scalability and performance
- Lead limited scope features from definition to deployment
- Help identify and troubleshoot performance issues and participate in efforts to optimize service reliability
- Work closely with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and designers to implement new features and iterate on existing functionality
- Participate in code reviews to support code quality and share constructive feedback with teammates
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that enhances the reusability and readability of team systems
- Contribute to the team’s efforts to improve observability, monitoring, and operational excellence
- Help investigate and resolve production issues, occasionally partnering with customer support or other teams as needed
- Collaborate across functions to align on priorities, surface blockers, and improve team workflows
- Learn from and support more senior engineers, and contribute to a culture of growth, inclusion, and continuous improvement
- Stay current with industry trends related to software development, experimentation, and backend technologies
- Demonstrate curiosity, creative thinking, and a proactive mindset in problem-solving
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.
Freddie
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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