Senior Backend Engineer

Role Description

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our engineering team and help design, build, ship and support end to end features and products that will help developers grow their business. We want to bring somebody with a product mindset, passionate about shipping products and with an eye for reliability, scalability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer designing and maintaining complex/large/growing systems.
• Comfortable writing and debugging SQL.
• Love debugging and finding the root cause of production issues.
• Passionate about shipping good products.
• Excellent command of at least one of the mainstream programming languages.
• Ability to ship high quality code using good testing practices in iterative cycles.
• Collaborate well with others and communicate effectively in a fully-remote culture.
• Proactive; when seeing something broken, jump on it to fix it or suggest improvements.
• Versatile and a fast learner.

Requirements

• Bonus: Experience in Python.
• Bonus: Experience in PostgreSQL.
• Bonus: Experience building SDKs.
• Bonus: Shipped a mobile app with in-app purchases.
• Bonus: Some experience with React and SPA applications.

Benefits

• Competitive equity in a fast-growing, Series C startup backed by top-tier investors, including Y Combinator.
• 10-year window to exercise vested equity options.
• Fully remote and flexible work environment.
• 4-5 weeks of suggested time off annually for mental, physical, and emotional recharge.
• $2,000 USD for workspace setup and $1,000 USD annual stipend for continuous learning.

Company Description

RevenueCat removes the headaches of building and scaling in‑app subscriptions. Since graduating from YC’s S18 batch we’ve grown into the default monetization platform for mobile: we’re in >40% of newly shipped subscription apps, we process $12B+ in annual purchase volume, and we help everyone from a solo dev in Brazil to the OpenAI mobile team understand and grow their revenue.

We’re a remote‑first crew of 150+, spread across 25+ countries, and guided by values we actually practice: Customer Obsession, Always Be Shipping, Own It, and Balance. If you want your work to touch hundreds of millions of end‑users (and help the developers behind them get paid), you’ll fit right in.

Onboarding Timeline

In the first month, you'll:

• Meet frequently with your team and mentor to get up to speed.
• Setup and familiarize yourself with repositories, task management, the dev environment.
• Implement and ship your first project.
• Familiarize yourself with the RevenueCat dashboards, logging, debugging tools, cloud providers, infrastructure management and general architecture.
• Familiarize yourself with workflows and subscription business concepts.

Within the first 3 months, you'll:

• Be able to scope and work on projects self-sufficiently.
• Learn the basics of incident response, and be part of the on-call rotation.
• Participate in code reviews, and contribute in other ways (testing, visibility, etc.) to improve reliability and quality of the codebase.
• Understand every product owned by your team.
• Understand and improve many of the codebases that the team works with.

Within the first 6 months, you'll:

• Review code, create proposals, and contribute to architectural discussions.
• Contribute to the team roadmap and technical direction.
• Be an expert on a couple of your team’s focus areas.
• Have shipped a major product or feature.

Within the first 12 months, you'll:

• Know all the major components of our system and be able to debug complex issues.
• Have your own initiatives for improving our products, understanding the current issues and priorities.
• Be able to spec and architect medium-large projects, gather feedback and design validation and rollout plans.
• Mentor other engineers joining the team.
• Influence the org to improve general reliability, scalability and performance.