Senior Full Stack Engineer, LaunchDarkly
$173-204k
+ Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Office located in Oakland, CA
Feature management for software teams
Be an early applicant
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$173-204k
+ Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Office located in Oakland, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- You're a Full Stack engineer, but comfortable with at least 40-50% Backend focus
- Demonstrable experience with server-side web development (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang)
- Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, such as React
- Experience building RESTful APIs
- Experience building and maintaining large-scale production systems
- 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 value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
- A familiarity with networking technologies (TCP, HTTP, websockets, server-sent events, etc.)
What the job involves
- Software powers the world, and LaunchDarkly empowers all teams to deliver and control the best software.
- As a Full Stack Engineer focusing on Backend, you will help us build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our Billing and Internal Systems end-to-end, contributing to backend and frontend code
- Our platform serves over twenty trillion feature flags daily. The core technologies we use daily include Golang, Node.js, React, Redux, Redis, and NATS. As part of our you-build-it-you-run-it culture, all developers may be responsible for supporting applications in production, including on-call. Off-hours on call is optional and compensated in addition
- Collaborate with product managers, other engineers, and designers to drive the implementation and release of major 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
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
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 values
- Build together, win together
- Create customer champions
- Learn and grow
- Widen the circle
- Work impactfully, work sustainably
Company HQ
Lakeside, Oakland, CA
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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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