
Senior Software Development Engineer, Backend – Subscriptions
Recharge
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $148,000 - $185,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- The Subscriptions Team at Recharge is responsible for several services that are integral to our business, as well as building pivotal core features for our merchants and their customers.
- They work to build, maintain, and improve several services, including Subscriptions, Orders, Discounts, Shipping, Taxes, and key integrations with Shopify.
- Champion and embody our core values – accountability, collaboration, iteration, and attention to detail.
- Perform thorough code reviews and provide constructive, actionable feedback.
- Embrace rapid, iterative design, testing, and development to deliver value while continuously learning.
- Demo your work regularly to teammates and peers.
- Promote strong engineering habits, including sound development practices, security awareness, and thoughtful management of technical debt.
- Advocate for improved standards, tooling, and processes across the team.
- Partner with product and engineering management to shape roadmaps, plan timelines, and release features incrementally.
- Participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle, helping assess the technical feasibility of new initiatives.
- Contribute to a positive, supportive team culture grounded in shared ownership and accountability.
- Collaborate across Subscriptions and the wider engineering organization to deliver impactful, reliable systems.
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of backend experience with technologies such as Python, GCP (Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub), MySQL, and Redis, and are comfortable in distributed, event-driven, and cloud-native environments.
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement features within strict external platform or API requirements (Shopify, payment processors, marketplaces), making thoughtful product and technical tradeoffs.
- Communicate clearly across remote channels and contribute thoughtfully to discussions and reviews.
- Approach challenges with initiative and accountability, balancing pragmatism with technical depth.
- Balance pragmatism and high standards – you know when to move fast and when to dig deeper for quality, maintainability, and scale.
- Collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and leadership to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions.
- Contribute to a healthy team culture through kindness, respect, and openness to feedback and diverse perspectives.
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision plans
- Retirement plan with employer contribution
- Flexible Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- Monthly Remote Life and Merchant stipends
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonGCPCloud FunctionsPub/SubMySQLRedisbackend developmentAPI designevent-driven architecturecloud-native environments
Soft Skills
accountabilitycollaborationiterationattention to detailclear communicationinitiativepragmatismkindnessrespectopenness to feedback