Software Engineer - SDK
Job Type
Full Time
Salary
$127k - $176k
Skills
JavaScript
React
TypeScript
Summary
Mission/Vision: LaunchDarkly’s mission is to help developers innovate faster while providing a safety net to quickly correct mistakes. The Software Engineer - SDK role supports this mission by building primary touchpoints that enable efficient feature flagging.
Key Responsibilities: Develop and maintain SDKs for JavaScript and other platforms, collaborate with engineering and product teams on major features, maintain open-source repositories, and improve SDKs based on evolving JavaScript ecosystems.
Growth Opportunities: Contribute to open-source software, work with diverse technologies, and have a voice in shaping both technology and product decisions within a fast-growth environment.
Description
About the Job:
As a Software Engineer on LaunchDarkly’s SDK team, you will build the primary touchpoint that our customers interact with on a daily basis. You’ll work with multiple technologies across our 20+ SDKs while enabling customers of all kinds to feature flag their code. When working on our SDKs, you’d be contributing to much more than thin client wrappers. Our SDKs are feature-rich agents with strong emphases on performance, concurrency, and resiliency -- all while following idiomatic practices for their tech stack.
LaunchDarkly serves trillions of feature flags daily to customers all around the globe, and every flag is handled by our SDKs. This team has a major impact not only on our company, but on our customers (and their customers). We are growing fast and we need your help writing the next chapter in our story.
Responsibilities:
Contribute to SDK development for JavaScript (Node Server, React, etc) and other
Ensure LaunchDarkly’s SDKs evolve along the constantly advancing JS ecosystem to provide modern JS development experiences for customers using LaunchDarkly.
Keep up to date with the latest JavaScript development trends for both front-end and back-end ecosystems.
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
Qualifications:
Experience building Javascript SDK
Full stack JavaScript experience.
Polyglot background— fluent in JavaScript, TypeScript, and at least one other language, and an ability to context switch quickly between languages
Strong computer science fundamentals
Experience building and maintaining client applications or libraries
A commitment to working in a communicative and 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
Pay:
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level P3:
Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or New York City Metropolitan Area (if not Bay area specific role): $150,000 - $176,000**
Zone 2: Boston, DC, Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Seattle: $135,000 - $158,000**
Zone 3: All other US locations: $127,000 - $150,000**
LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
*Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas.
**Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
About LaunchDarkly:
Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations.
The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:
Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages
Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts
Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types
Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability
At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at .
One of our company values is 'Widen the Circle'. Which means we seek out diversity of perspectives to get better results. We understand everyone has their own unique talents and experiences. We encourage you to apply to this role even if you don’t think you meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above. We can find out together if it's the right match for your skillset.
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