RevenueCat
Finance / FinServ
SeniorBackendEngineer,RCCapital
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“Senior Backend Engineer, RC Capital at RevenueCat. Skills: backend engineering, fintech, financial systems at scale, SQL, high quality code, testing practices, collaboration, communication. greenfield development on brand new infrastructure. partnering directly with leadership to decide the future of the product and the team”
What You'll Achieve.
help developers make more money; grow their revenue; touch hundreds of millions of end-users; help the developers behind them get paid; scale RC Capital; decide the future of the product and the team; help apps implement and manage purchases; continue to help developers make more money — not just through software, but through financial products; get app store proceeds sooner; Prepare Daily Payouts for rapid scaling; get this into general availability this year; prepare our current infrastructure to stretch seamlessly from dozens of developers to thousands of developers, with low cost, high performance and perfect reconciliation; Build for our next big launch; adding much more flexibility to Daily Payouts by offering withdraw via card instead of ACH; a lending product, offered in collaboration with a partner, exact specs TBD; refine the vision
Industry & Context.
love debugging; finding the root cause of production issues; proactive; When you see something broken, you jump on it to fix it or suggest improvements; debugging a tricky issue with Plaid
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of experience working as a software engineer designing and maintaining complex/large/growing systems, experience in fintech, helped design and maintain complex financial systems at scale, comfortable writing and debugging SQL, excellent command of at least one of the mainstream programming languages, know how to ship high quality code using good testing practices in iterative cycles, collaborate well with others, can communicate effectively in a fully-remote culture, proactive, versatile and a fast learner
Nice to Have
experience in Python, experience in PostgreSQL, experience in ClickHouse, some experience with React and SPA applications
What You'll Do.
greenfield development on brand new infrastructure
partnering directly with leadership to decide the future of the product and the team
Prepare Daily Payouts for rapid scaling
shore up fraud detection
and automate every step of qualification and onboarding
adapt systems to work with new partner banks so we can expand internationally
prepare our current infrastructure to stretch seamlessly from dozens of developers to thousands of developers
high performance and perfect reconciliation
Build for our next big launch
adding much more flexibility to Daily Payouts by offering withdraw via card instead of ACH
offered in collaboration with a partner
get on with a customer to debug a tricky issue with Plaid
from tech spec to cost
and offer recommendations on next steps
give feedback on designs
spin up email templates
build internal tools for our pms and customer support to leverage in their jobs
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
collaborate well with others; can communicate effectively in a fully-remote culture; stretch across a small team; all hands on deck; Everyone is going to be rolling up their sleeves and making impact outside their role
Communication Scope
communicate effectively in a fully-remote culture
Full Job Description
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 $10B+ 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 120+, 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. THE ROLE We're looking for an Senior Backend Engineer to join the RevenueCat Capital team. This is a unique hybrid role that blends product strategy, financial modeling, and capital markets execution — and join on the ground floor of a brand new business line. As we scale RC Capital, our financial services team, you’ll be doing greenfield development on brand new infrastructure, partnering directly with leadership to decide the future of the product and the team, and getting in the ground floor of a real zero-to-one opportutnity. Read more about the opportunity here https://www.notion.so/RC-Capital-the-opportunity-33ccb1a108b080ea9fdef24dfa0caa06?pvs=21. THE OPPORTUNITY: RC CAPITAL RevenueCat is on a mission to help developers make more money. We build software that helps apps implement and manage purchases, with over 50% of new subscription apps on the App Store launching with RevenueCat. OpenAI's mobile subscriptions run on RC. Top of funnel metrics are up 300%+ YoY. RC Capital is our next chapter: we'll continue to help developers make more money — not just through software, but through financial products. Financial institutions would love to have what we already have: - Trust + distribution: App developers already trust us in their purchase flow — the highest stakes moment in any user journey.
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