Backend Engineer, Monetization

The Billing and Internal Systems team is responsible for building and maintaining solutions that enable LaunchDarkly’s core monetization strategies. Our investments span pricing and packaging, account management and provisioning, usage-based billing, and quote-to-cash systems. As a member of this team, you will directly influence the company’s operations, collaborating closely with stakeholders from Revenue, Finance, and Product teams. You will also drive enhancements to our customer-facing billing and usage systems, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and a seamless experience.

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security for Billing and Internal Systems.

• Build and deliver new features, ensuring they meet the functional and technical requirements, while keeping an eye on performance and user experience.

• Design robust and scalable APIs to support new and existing features, focusing on reliability, speed, and minimal latency.

• Continuously improve system performance, troubleshoot bottlenecks, and optimize code for maximum efficiency, ensuring minimal downtime.

• Monitor and enhance the resilience of our systems, proactively identifying and addressing potential vulnerabilities and performance issues.

• Work closely with frontend engineers to ensure smooth integration between backend systems and user interfaces.

• Use in-depth evaluation of variable factors to determine optimal solutions for complex engineering problems, balancing innovative approaches with practical constraints.

About You:

• You are someone who thrives working at the intersection of people, process, and technology
• You have a passion for translating complex business needs into simple, detail-oriented solutions
• You balance strategic thinking with meticulous attention to detail, particularly in areas like billing where precision and data integrity are critical
• You’re comfortable navigating a dynamic, fast-paced environment, motivated by results, and energized by the direct impact your work will have on both internal teams and the overall satisfaction of LaunchDarkly’s customers.

• You should have have 5 or more years of Backend engineering experience

• Demonstrable experience with server-side web development (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang)

• Experience building RESTful APIs

• Experience building and maintaining large-scale production systems

• Familiarity with computer science fundamentals such as data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading

• A commitment to working in a communicative and collaborative environment

• You write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability

• You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices

• A familiarity with networking technologies (TCP, HTTP, web sockets, server-sent events, etc.)

Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. 

The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:

• Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages
• Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts
• Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
• Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types
• Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability

At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at [email protected]. 

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