Backend Engineer, LaunchDarkly
Experimentation
$187-223.7k
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
$187-223.7k
Office located in Oakland, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on backend development, or equivalent demonstrable skills and experience
- Experience building in Go
- Extensive experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs
- Knowledge of experimentation methodologies (e.g., A/B testing, multivariate testing) and best practices
- Deep understanding of software design principles, patterns, and best practices
- Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver highly scalable and performant systems from inception to completion
- Experience with performance tuning and optimization techniques
- Strong understanding of observability and monitoring tools and practices
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor other engineers
- Experience with Agile development methodologies
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation
- A passion for writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- A proactive and self-directed approach to work
- A strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Experience in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Experience working with distributed teams
What the job involves
- LaunchDarkly is seeking highly skilled and experienced Backend Engineer with a background in experimentation or data-driven products
- You will 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 is both powerful for experienced data scientists and accessible to newcomers
- You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and performant applications using Go and RESTful APIs
- You will play a critical role in delivering high-impact projects, driving technical excellence, and mentoring fellow engineers
- You will also be a champion for code quality, observability, and operational excellence
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and performant solutions for experimentation and data-driven products with a focus on usability and maintainability
- Make key architectural decisions considering scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Identify and resolve performance and scalability bottlenecks
- Partner closely with product managers, other engineers, data scientists, and designers to lead the delivery of business-critical production changes of significant scope
- Drive and enforce code quality standards within the team through code reviews and feedback
- Enhance code comprehension and reusability across the team
- Improve the observability and operability of team services and code
- Work directly with customers and our support team to diagnose and resolve production issues
- Identify and resolve team misalignments, fostering collaboration and communication
- Resolve decisions of feature prioritization, technical design, and product functionality by leveraging a deep understanding of frontend and backend technologies, experimentation platforms, and internal dogfooding
- Proactively identify and escalate critical issues before they impact the business
- Mentor and guide colleagues, sharing best practices and promoting a culture of continuous improvement
- Write and review technical proposals, decomposing large projects into iterative releases
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends in software development, experimentation, and data-driven products, and proactively identify and implement improvements to tools, processes, and methodologies
- Embrace curiosity and creative problem-solving, maintaining a proactive and positive mindset
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
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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