Backend Engineer - Mid-Senior Level
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Description
LaunchDarkly is seeking a Backend Engineer at the Mid-Senior level to help build features, design and implement API methods, and enhance system performance and reliability. This role involves working with core technologies like Golang, Redis, and NATS to support our platform serving over twenty trillion feature flags daily. As part of the you-build-it-you-run-it culture, engineers will be responsible for supporting applications in production, including optional compensated off-hours on-call duties.
Responsibilities
Build and enhance data analysis products and APIs for the new Experimentation product line.
Collaborate with frontend engineers to deliver user-facing 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.
Requirements
Demonstrable experience with server-side web development in languages such as Java, Scala, Ruby, Python, or Golang.
Experience building RESTful APIs.
Familiarity with computer science fundamentals such as data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading.
Commitment to a communicative and collaborative working environment.
Ability to write easily understandable and maintainable code.
High standards for working with production systems.
Valuation of high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.
Familiarity with networking technologies such as TCP, HTTP, websockets, and server-sent events.
About
LaunchDarkly isn’t just a leader in feature management — it’s the first scalable feature management platform. Feature management allows development teams to innovate faster by fundamentally transforming how software is delivered to customers. With the ability to gradually release new software features to any segment of users on any platform, DevOps teams can standardize safe releases at scale, accelerate their journey to the cloud, and collaborate more effectively with business teams. Today, LaunchDarkly deploys peaks of 20 trillion feature flags each day, and that number continues to grow. Founded in 2014 in Oakland, California by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly has been named on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, InfoWorld’s 2021 Technology of the Year list, and the Enterprise Tech 30 list.
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