Backend Engineer, LaunchDarkly
Monetization
$141.9-210k
+ Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Actual salary range is dependent on location.
Feature management for software teams
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Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$141.9-210k
+ Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). Actual salary range is dependent on location.
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- You are someone who thrives working at the intersection of people, process, and technology
- You have a passion for translating complex business needs into simple, detail-oriented solutions
- You balance strategic thinking with meticulous attention to detail, particularly in areas like billing where precision and data integrity are critical
- You’re comfortable navigating a dynamic, fast-paced environment, motivated by results, and energized by the direct impact your work will have on both internal teams and the overall satisfaction of LaunchDarkly’s customers
- You should have have 5 or more years of Backend engineering experience
- Demonstrable experience with server-side web development (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang)
- 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, web sockets, server-sent events, etc.)
What the job involves
- The Billing and Internal Systems team is responsible for building and maintaining solutions that enable LaunchDarkly’s core monetization strategies. Our investments span pricing and packaging, account management and provisioning, usage-based billing, and quote-to-cash systems
- As a member of this team, you will directly influence the company’s operations, collaborating closely with stakeholders from Revenue, Finance, and Product teams. You will also drive enhancements to our customer-facing billing and usage systems, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and a seamless experience
- Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security for Billing and Internal Systems
- Build and deliver new features, ensuring they meet the functional and technical requirements, while keeping an eye on performance and user experience
- Design robust and scalable APIs to support new and existing features, focusing on reliability, speed, and minimal latency
- Continuously improve system performance, troubleshoot bottlenecks, and optimize code for maximum efficiency, ensuring minimal downtime
- Monitor and enhance the resilience of our systems, proactively identifying and addressing potential vulnerabilities and performance issues
- Work closely with frontend engineers to ensure smooth integration between backend systems and user interfaces
- Use in-depth evaluation of variable factors to determine optimal solutions for complex engineering problems, balancing innovative approaches with practical constraints
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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