Senior Backend Engineer

Who you are

• Technologies include Go, TypeScript, Postgres, AWS, and Terraform. Exact tool match matters far less than deep backend judgment and a track record of safely changing systems that are not allowed to be wrong
• 6+ years of professional software-engineering experience, with significant work on complex backend applications
• Experience decomposing a monolith
• A track record on systems where correctness is non-negotiable, and the habits that come with it: idempotency, reconciliation, reversible migrations, and safe cutovers
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Go, Rust, Python, etc.) and familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent), plus strong production ownership including on-call
• Billing, payments, or metering systems, or usage-based pricing
• Modeling entitlements, quotas, or multi-tenant limits

What the job involves

• Software powers the world, and LaunchDarkly empowers teams to deliver and control it safely
• As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Billing team, you will own the systems that turn every plan, price, entitlement, and usage limit into revenue — checkout, subscription and entitlement APIs, usage metering, and the integrations to our billing, CRM, and finance systems
• When billing is wrong, customers get the wrong product and we invoice the wrong amount. Correctness here is a commitment to our customers, not a nice-to-have. You and your team will drive the modernization of our billing platform
• Design and build the systems that define our plans, pricing, entitlements, and limits, and expose them through our API
• Decompose billing from our monolith into services that are correct, testable, and independently deployable
• Own correctness end to end — usage metering, reconciliation, and the invoices and usage data customers see
• Operate what you build: SLOs, alerting, on-call, and fixing root causes rather than repeating mitigations

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