Senior Backend Engineer
RevenueCat · Remote · Americas · EMEA ·
COMPENSATION
$230k – $230k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior Backend Engineer
- Fully remote team
- Python + PostgreSQL
- High-scale systems
- Equity + Learning budget
Join RevenueCat as a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and own product features used by thousands of developers and millions of end users. You will work in a hands-on individual contributor role, balancing engineering fundamentals with product sense to ship performant systems at scale.
What you'll do
- Design and ship end-to-end product features for developer tools
- Write performant systems that operate at huge scale with high reliability
- Scope, prioritize, and drive rollout in partnership with the Product team
- Monitor feature usage and adoption, iterating based on data
- Participate in code reviews and mentor other engineers
- Join the on-call rotation and handle incident response
- Contribute to architectural discussions and technical direction
What you'll need
- 8+ years of experience as a backend engineer
- Experience designing complex, fast-growing systems from scratch
- Ability to write advanced SQL statements beyond basic queries
- Strong communication skills for async and real-time remote work
- Comfortable coding alongside AI tools like Copilot or Cursor
- Proven track record of shipping user-facing features to production
- Ability to debug issues methodically and improve existing code
Nice to have
- Experience with Python
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience building SDKs
- Shipped a mobile app with in-app purchases
- Some experience with React and SPA applications
Stack
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- React
- Copilot
- Cursor
- Claude Code
How you'll work
- Fully remote environment
- Autonomy and flexibility in work hours
- On-call rotation required after initial ramp-up
What you get
- Competitive equity in Series C startup
- 10-year window to exercise vested equity options
- 4-5 weeks of flexible time off annually
- Paid desk at a co-working space
- Workspace budget and continuous learning stipend
Hiring process
- Rigorous interview process focused on alignment and performance
- Review of hiring values and remote work expectations
- Technical assessment and team fit discussions