About us:

RevenueCat makes building, analyzing, and growing mobile subscriptions easy. We launched as part of Y Combinator's summer 2018 batch and today are handling more than $1.5B of in-app purchases annually across thousands of apps.

We are a mission driven, remote-first company that is building the standard for mobile subscription infrastructure. Top apps like VSCO, Notion, and ClassDojo count on RevenueCat to power their subscriptions at scale.

Our 50 team members (and growing!) are located all over the world, from San Francisco to Madrid to Taipei. We're a close-knit, product-driven team, and we strive to live our core values: Customer Obsession, Always Be Shipping, Own It, and Balance.

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join one of our Product teams and help build new systems and features, improve our existing infrastructure, and ultimately help developers make more money.

About you:

You love making products for developers.
You have 5+ years of proven experience working as a Backend engineer.
You are comfortable writing and debugging SQL, bonus points if it's PostgreSQL.
You have experience building web applications with a JavaScript framework, React experience is a plus.
You have experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs, Python experience is a plus.
You are a collaborative builder and like to build systems with other engineers in mind.
You don't scoff at unglamorous engineering tasks, yaks don't shave themselves.
You are an excellent written and verbal communicator.
You have deep empathy for the user.
You know when to seek assistance, and it's typically to discuss tradeoffs.
Experience building mobile apps is a plus.

In the first month, you'll:

Get up to speed on our architecture and learn the problem domain
Implement your first pull request and deploy to our 100's of millions of API consumers
Begin reviewing code and add to our engineering culture

Within the first 3 months, you'll:

Scope and implement new functionality in our codebase
Learn the basics of incident response, and be part of the on-call rotation
Make improvements to how we test, review, and ship code to improve quality

Within the first 6 months, you'll:

Be the most knowledgeable person on several key features
Help build and make changes to the RevenueCat dashboard
Know all the major components of our system and be able to debug complex issues
Have your own initiatives for improving the code base and our infrastructure
Be able detect bottlenecks, profile, and come up with enhancements

Within the first 12 months, you'll:

Be able to spec, architect, and build any feature we might want to build
Mentor other engineers joining the team
Know more about PostgreSQL than anyone ever should

What we offer:

$200,000 USD salary regardless of your location
Competitive equity in a fast-growing, Series B startup backed by top tier investors including Y Combinator
10 year window to exercise vested equity options
Fully remote work environment that promotes autonomy and flexibility
Suggested 4 to 5 weeks time off to recharge and focus on mental, physical, and emotional health
$2,000 USD to build your personal workspace
$1,000 USD annual stipend for your continuous learning and growth