Frontend Engineer, LaunchDarkly
Growth
$167-208.7k
+Restricted Stock Units. Salary varies depending on location of applicant
Office located in Oakland, CA
Feature management for software teams
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Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$167-208.7k
+Restricted Stock Units. Salary varies depending on location of applicant
Office located in Oakland, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- Our Growth Engineers are data-driven, experimental, entrepreneurial, and open-minded to creating new opportunities to drive growth
- You’ll bring a strong attention to detail to make a product that is easy and delightful to use the first and every time
- Experience with client-side web development (React, React Query, and Typescript)
- A commitment to working in a communicative and collaborative environment
- You enjoy working in quick iterations while keeping the quality bar high
- You write clear, maintainable code that others can easily understand
- You strive for high standards when working with production systems
- You prioritize code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
What the job involves
- The Growth team drives the trajectory of the business’s leads and revenue by inflecting its top-of-funnel acquisition and trial activation. We own and define the first impression of LaunchDarkly to new users, ensuring that every user feels successful, supported and delighted
- We showcase the cutting-edge strengths of LaunchDarkly’s industry-leading technology—such as Guardian, Experimentation, and AI—through a seamless product experience
- As a member of the Growth Team, your work will directly impact time to first value (aka getting the user to their first “wow” moment). You will work on a cross-functional team that collaborates closely with product, marketing, and data teams to identify growth opportunities and drive impactful experiments
- Example projects include: trial onboarding, interactive demos that allow users to explore product features experiences, upsell experiences, and signup/activation optimizations
- Metrics that your work on Growth Team will positively impact:
- Self-service conversion rates of users from trials
- Percent of accounts who get to their first flag evaluation during trial
- Work closely with product managers, marketing teams, and data scientists to understand business goals, identify growth opportunities, and build user-facing features that drive product growth
- Lead the development of frontend experiments aimed at improving user engagement, acquisition, and retention
- Use data and insights to guide the development of growth features, implementing changes that directly impact the user experience and overall product success
- Take full ownership of the design, development, and delivery of user-facing features, ensuring high performance, scalability, and seamless integration with backend systems. You’ll create dynamic and responsive web interfaces that elevate the overall user experience
- Provide guidance on frontend architecture decisions, ensuring best practices are followed. Assess various technical trade-offs in experimentation to optimize for both performance and user engagement
- Bring deep expertise in frontend development to influence product strategy and direction
- Participate in discussions with product and marketing teams to develop innovative ideas that drive business growth through product-led initiatives
- Work on a wide range of problems, using your expertise to analyze complex data and evaluate multiple factors that inform frontend solutions
- You’ll resolve issues creatively and efficiently while improving and refining frontend components to meet evolving customer and business needs
- Ensure the quality and reliability of the product through the development of comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
- Participate in code reviews to uphold high standards of code quality across the team
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
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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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