About this role.
RevenueCat is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build and support end-to-end features for its mobile subscription monetization platform. The role requires 5+ years of experience with complex, growing systems, strong SQL debugging ability, production incident investigation, and reliable iterative delivery. The engineer will join a remote-first team, participate in on-call, improve code quality through reviews and testing, and eventually architect medium-to-large projects and mentor peers. Preferred experience includes Python, PostgreSQL, SDK development, mobile in-app purchases, and React-based single-page applications.
Role DNA
A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description.
Job Complexity
5/5Pace & Pressure
4/5Autonomy Level
5/5Communication Load
4/5Salary analysis
Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles.
Core skills
Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity.
Sample interview questions
I would begin by establishing impact and recent changes, then correlate application logs, metrics, traces, database activity, and deployment history. After forming and testing hypotheses, I would mitigate customer impact first, validate the fix with monitoring, and document corrective actions such as tests, alerts, or architectural changes to prevent recurrence.
I clarify functional and nonfunctional requirements, expected traffic, failure modes, data consistency needs, and operational ownership. I then propose a simple design with observability, safe rollout controls, testing strategy, capacity considerations, and measurable success criteria, gathering feedback before implementation.
I would reproduce or identify the query pattern, inspect execution plans with EXPLAIN ANALYZE, review indexes, row estimates, locks, and query frequency. I would then test an appropriate remedy—such as query restructuring, indexing, batching, or caching—while validating correctness and measuring latency and database-load improvements.
I treat on-call as an engineering feedback loop: respond calmly, communicate impact and status clearly, mitigate safely, and preserve evidence for follow-up. After an incident, I contribute to a blameless review and prioritize durable improvements such as runbooks, alerts, tests, dashboards, and reduced operational complexity.
I break work into small, releasable increments and define the critical tests, monitoring, and rollback path needed for each increment. I use code review and automated checks to protect quality, while avoiding unnecessary complexity until evidence shows it is needed.
RevenueCat removes the headaches of building and scaling in‑app subscriptions. Since graduating from YC’s S18 batch we’ve grown into the default monetization platform for mobile: we’re in >40% of newly shipped subscription apps, we process $12B+ in annual purchase volume, and we help everyone from a solo dev in Brazil to the OpenAI mobile team understand and grow their revenue.
We’re a remote‑first crew of 150+, spread across 25+ countries, and guided by values we actually practice: Customer Obsession, Always Be Shipping, Own It, and Balance. If you want your work to touch hundreds of millions of end‑users (and help the developers behind them get paid), you’ll fit right in.
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our engineering team and help design, build, ship and support end to end features and products that will help developers grow their business. We want to bring somebody with a product mindset, passionate about shipping products and with an eye for reliability, scalability and performance.
About you:
You have 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer designing and maintaining complex/large/growing systems.
You are comfortable writing and debugging SQL.
You love debugging and finding the root cause of production issues.
You love shipping good products.
You have excellent command of at least one of the mainstream programming languages.
You know how to ship high quality code using good testing practices in iterative cycles.
You collaborate well with others and can communicate effectively in a fully-remote culture.
You are proactive. When you see something broken, you jump on it to fix it or suggest improvements.
You are versatile and a fast learner.
Bonus:
You have experience in Python.
You have experience in PostgreSQL.
You have experience building SDKs.
You have shipped a mobile app with in-app purchases.
You have some experience with React and SPA applications.
In the first month, you’ll:
Meet frequently with your team and mentor to get up to speed.
Setup and familiarize yourself with repositories, task management, the dev environment.
Implement and ship your first project.
Familiarize yourself with the RevenueCat dashboards, logging, debugging tools, cloud providers, infrastructure management and general architecture.
Familiarize yourself with workflows and subscription business concepts.
Within the first 3 months, you’ll:
Be able to scope and work on projects self-sufficiently.
Learn the basics of incident response, and be part of the on-call rotation.
Participate in code reviews, and contribute in other ways (testing, visibility, etc.) to improve reliability and quality of the codebase.
Understand every product owned by your team.
Understand and improve many of the codebases that the team works with.
Within the first 6 months, you’ll:
Review code, create proposals, and contribute to architectural discussions.
Contribute to the team roadmap and technical direction.
Be an expert on a couple of your team’s focus areas.
Have shipped a major product or feature.
Within the first 12 months, you’ll:
Know all the major components of our system and be able to debug complex issues.
Have your own initiatives for improving our products, understanding the current issues and priorities.
Be able to spec and architect medium-large projects, gather feedback and design validation and rollout plans.
Mentor other engineers joining the team.
Influence the org to improve general reliability, scalability and performance.
What we offer:
Competitive equity in a fast-growing, Series C startup backed by top-tier investors, including Y Combinator
10-year window to exercise vested equity options
Fully remote and flexible work environment
4-5 weeks of suggested time off annually for mental, physical, and emotional recharge
$2,000 USD for workspace setup and $1,000 USD annual stipend for continuous learning
Curious about the interview process? Discover more in our blog post about how we hire and learn tips to help you succeed.
Upload your resume now
- To unlock remote work opportunities and be discovered by global employers.
This job listing has been manually reviewed by the Jobicy Trust & Safety Team for compliance with our posting guidelines, including verification of the company's legitimacy, accuracy of job details, clarity of remote work policy, and absence of misleading or fraudulent content.
