Senior Backend Engineer

RevenueCat

Senior Backend Engineer at RevenueCat developing greenfield infrastructure for financial services. Collaborating with leadership to shape product future and ensure scalability.

Posted 5/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $227,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Prepare Daily Payouts for rapid scaling including fraud detection and monitoring.
Build for the next big product launch in RC Capital.
Get obsessed with customers and solve tricky issues with vendors, providing recommendations on next steps.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience working as a software engineer designing and maintaining complex/large/growing systems.
Experience in fintech, and have helped design and maintain complex financial systems at scale.
Comfortable writing and debugging SQL.
Loves debugging and finding the root cause of production issues.
Loves shipping good products.
Excellent command of at least one of the mainstream programming languages.
Knows how to ship high quality code using good testing practices in iterative cycles.
Collaborates well with others and can communicate effectively in a fully-remote culture.
Proactive and jumps on issues to fix or suggest improvements.
Versatile and a fast learner.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLsoftware engineeringdesigning systemsmaintaining systemsdebuggingtesting practicesiterative cyclesprogramming languagesfinancial systems

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcustomer obsessioncommunicationcollaborationproactivityadaptabilityfast learning