Backend Engineer - Experimentation Platform

Position Overview

LaunchDarkly is seeking a skilled Backend Engineer with experience in experimentation or data-driven products. You will 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 this role, you will contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, performant services using Go and RESTful APIs, as well as working with our data pipeline. You will have opportunities to take ownership of projects, grow your technical expertise, and help improve the quality and reliability of our systems. We are focused on building a best-in-class experimentation platform that enables customers to run impactful, data-driven experiments with ease and confidence, and we are actively growing the team to deliver on this vision.

We are committed to delivering a leading experimentation platform that empowers our customers to run tests and data-driven experiments seamlessly and at scale. We have a robust product roadmap, and we are actively expanding our teams to execute on it.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable and performant solutions for experimentation and data-driven products, with attention to usability and maintainability.
• Collaborate with senior engineers on architectural decisions that impact system scalability and performance.
• Lead limited scope features from definition to deployment.
• Help identify and troubleshoot performance issues and participate in efforts to optimize service reliability.
• Work closely with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and designers to implement new features and iterate on existing functionality.
• Participate in code reviews to support code quality and share constructive feedback with teammates.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that enhances the reusability and readability of team systems.
• Contribute to the team’s efforts to improve observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Help investigate and resolve production issues, occasionally partnering with customer support or other teams as needed.
• Collaborate across functions to align on priorities, surface blockers, and improve team workflows.
• Learn from and support more senior engineers, and contribute to a culture of growth, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• Stay current with industry trends related to software development, experimentation, and backend technologies.
• Demonstrate curiosity, creative thinking, and a proactive mindset in problem-solving.

About You

• Sympathetic: You are driven to understand customer mindset and pain points to create an advertising strategy that achieves business goals and meets customer needs.
• Team-Oriented: You excel at collaborating across the company. You can move easily between business stakeholders, product development, and marketing teams.
• Great Communicator: You have a natural ability to build relationships with cross-functional team members and are a master of the written word, with excellent attention to detail.
• A Believer: You understand that technology can simplify, delight, and enhance our lives and hope to build transformative innovation through your career.
• Startup Mentality: You thrive in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment where you balance multiple projects and can prioritize your work both short and long term.
• Driven: You are motivated to achieve success both at work and in your personal life.
• Commercially Aware: You understand how content ties to business objectives, understand target audience profiles and insights, and incorporate these into effective UX and marketing copy.

Qualifications

• 3–8 years of professional software development experience, primarily in backend development.
• Experience programming in Go or strong interest and ability to learn.

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