Backend Engineer, Experimentation Application - Remote

Overview

LaunchDarkly is seeking a skilled Backend Engineer with experience in experimentation or data-driven products. You’ll collaborate closely with a cross-functional team of backend, frontend, and fullstack engineers, along with product managers, data scientists, and designers, to help build an experimentation platform that balances power and accessibility.

In Short

• Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable and performant solutions for experimentation and data-driven products.
• Collaborate on architectural decisions that impact system scalability and performance.
• Lead limited scope features from definition to deployment.
• Identify and troubleshoot performance issues to optimize service reliability.
• Work closely with product managers and engineers to implement new features.
• Participate in code reviews to support code quality.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Contribute to improving observability and operational excellence.
• Investigate and resolve production issues.
• Collaborate across functions to align on priorities.

Requirements

• 3–8 years of professional software development experience, primarily in backend development.
• Experience programming in Go or strong interest to learn it.
• Familiarity with designing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Understanding of experimentation methodologies (e.g., A/B testing).
• Solid grasp of software engineering principles and coding best practices.
• Exposure to building or maintaining scalable systems.
• Familiarity with observability practices and tools.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is a plus.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Comfortable working in Agile development environments.

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Mental health benefits.