Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LaunchDarkly builds software delivery and feature management tools. The Backend Software Engineer on the SDK team develops and maintains customer-facing SDKs, improving their features, performance, and resiliency while collaborating on product and engineering decisions.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development for SDKs in supported platforms:
• Implement new features and improvements to meet customer performance and resiliency requirements
• Keep up to date with the latest development practices
• Collaborate with our engineering and product teams to drive the implementation and release of major features
• Actively maintain our open-source repositories
• Identify areas of improvement and advocate for best practices
• Have an active voice in shaping both technology and product decisions

Skills

• Demonstrable experience building libraries and packages used by other developers
• Polyglot background with an ability to context switch between languages quickly
• 5+ years experience with at least two of the following: .NET/Go/Ruby/Python/NodeJS/Java
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Committed to working in a communicative, collaborative environment
• Self‐starter and problem solver, willing to solve difficult problems and work independently when necessary
• Strong testing background: experience building unit, integration, load tests, and benchmarks
• Experience writing production-ready code with emphasis on quality and maintainability
• Experience contributing to open-source software
• C++/Erlang/Haskell/Lua
• AI SDKs
• Observability SDKs
• Mobile development

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Health, vision, and dental insurance
• Mental health benefits
• This is a remote role, with opportunities to visit the office in Bay Area California
• In this role, you can learn about many programming languages and frameworks

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