Senior Software Engineer, Agents

RevenueCat, Inc.

United States

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

Fully remote environment

4–5 weeks PTO

Coworking desk & workspace budget

Continuous learning stipend

Job summary

RevenueCat seeks an experienced engineer to help scale our AI agent platform, Rico and Astra. You will ship agentic features, manage orchestration, and improve reliability for thousands of developers.

You will work in a fully remote team spanning many countries, with a strong emphasis on shipping value over perfect specs. Expect high-impact, cross-functional collaboration and rapid iteration.

Qualifications

8+ years shipping production systems.
Built agents that are used by others (tool use, orchestration).
Strong backend fundamentals: reliable, observable, secure.

Responsibilities

Ship agentic features to thousands of developers.
Own orchestration, context management, and eval pipeline.
Mentor other engineers and influence architecture decisions.

Skills

Backend development

Agent systems

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Tools

OpenAI APIs

Anthropic APIs

Langfuse

Langchain

Job description

RevenueCat gives app businesses the infrastructure and tools to build, run, and improve their monetization. Since graduating from YC’s S18 batch, we’ve grown into the default monetization platform for mobile.

We’re in 50%+ of newly shipped subscription apps, we process $16B+ in annual purchase volume, and we help everyone from a solo developer to the OpenAI mobile team understand and grow their revenue.

We’re a remote-first team of 150+ people across 25+ countries, guided by values we actually practice: Customer Obsession, Always Be Shipping, Own It, and Balance.

This isn’t the right fit for everyone. The systems you’ll build here move billions of dollars and touch hundreds of millions of end users, and we don’t take that lightly. You’ll be expected to work hard and hold a high bar for what you ship, alongside some of the sharpest, most driven people you’ve worked with. If that sounds energizing rather than exhausting, keep reading.

The Role

RevenueCat helps app developers manage subscriptions and make more money from them. Maybe you’re an indie developer who doesn’t know what “conversion” even means, you just want your app to make money so you can keep building it. Or maybe you’re a growth specialist at a company doing millions a month, and pricing experiments are already your whole job. Either way, you probably didn’t get into this to spend your days staring at a dashboard. So we built two AI agents to do that work for you, or make you even sharper at it if you’re already a pro.

Enter Rico. Rico watches over your subscription business and can help you make sense of it, and act on what it finds. Say your revenue dropped last week. You don’t need to go digging through charts to find out why. Just ask Rico. It pulls the data, explains what happened in plain language, and shows you how you compare to similar apps. Then it can fix things itself, like setting up a new plan or restoring a customer’s access, with you approving the change before it goes live. Run a pricing experiment and Rico will read the results for you and tell you which version is winning. There are so many things we want Rico to be able to do!

Then there’s Astra. Astra is a specialized agent to build and edit paywalls, the screen that asks someone to subscribe. Most developers are not designers, and a paywall that actually gets people to tap “subscribe” is harder to build than it looks, so Astra helps you with that. Use it in our online editor, from the command line, or hook your own AI tools into it over MCP.

You can see both Rico and Astra in action in our most recent product launch recap.

This is a role for engineers who’ve built advanced agents that do actual work, not just a thin wrapper around an LLM. You’ll ship agentic features to thousands of developers, and you’ll shape the foundation everything else runs on: orchestration, tool execution, context management, evaluation and human-in-the-loop controls.

About You

You have 8+ years of experience shipping production systems.
You’ve built agents that other people actually use and the systems around them: tool use, structured output, context management, evaluation, orchestration.
You have strong backend fundamentals. You’ve built systems that need to be reliable, observable, and secure.
You hold a high bar for quality and instinctively know which details matter, but also are discerning enough to cut scope when needed while still delivering value.
You’re customer-obsessed: you imagine yourself as the developer, product manager, or marketer using the feature or experiencing the issue.
You’re a builder, not an implementer: scoping, prioritizing, and driving rollout in partnership with our Product team. This isn’t a role where you check off items from a detailed specification.
You can quickly familiarize yourself with code you didn’t write yourself and improve it.
You’re scrappy and biased toward shipping. You’d rather ship a good version today and iterate than wait to ship a perfect one next quarter.
You communicate clearly, both in real-time and asynchronously. We’re a fully remote team, and how you write is as important as how you code.
You’ve shipped meaningful user-facing features to production, monitored their usage and adoption, and improved them over time.
You write high-quality, well-tested code, debug issues methodically, and help raise the engineering bar through thoughtful feedback and mentorship.
You act like an founder:: you notice problems, propose improvements, and follow through fast.
You’re comfortable with ambiguity. This is an early stage product inside a growth stage company, and the architecture is still being figured out.
You’re self directed. You figure out what needs to be built, build it, and ship it.
You are curious and stay current on AI tools and practices.
You have a habit of sharing what you learn with others.

Ideally, you have:

Familiarity with subscription business models, app stores, or developer tools
Experience with OpenAI/Anthropic APIs specifically
Experience with observability frameworks (Langfuse, Langchain, etc.)
Built Slack integrations
Contributed to open source AI/ML tooling
Maintained systems at scale

In the first month, you’ll:

Meet frequently with your team and manager to get up to speed
Learn our tools, processes, and the subscription business concepts that shape our product
Get familiar with our debugging tools, infrastructure, and overall architecture
Ship your first project: a small feature that gets you into the codebase and shows you how Rico and Astra talk to RevenueCat’s APIs
Jump in early: fix bugs, ship small improvements, and weigh in on PRs

Within the first 3 months, you’ll:

Ship a medium sized project, ideally a new agentic feature that reaches tens of thousands of developers
Understand the main product areas your team owns and how they work end to end
Understand our current agent infrastructure, orchestration, the eval pipeline, the tool framework, and the trust and permissions layer, and have opinions on how to improve it
Scope and work on projects on your own, from idea to post launch improvements
Take part in code reviews, bug bashes, and technical discussions

Within the first 6 months, you’ll:

Become the go to engineer for certain focus areas
Have made Rico and Astra measurably more reliable, faster, and capable
Contribute to architecture discussions that affect more than just your team
Mentor other engineers joining the team
Talk directly with customers to understand how your work actually lands
Debug issues across frontend, backend, and data. Communicate clearly during incidents and drive fixes that prevent repeats
Learn the basics of incident response and join the on call rotation

Within the first 12 months, you’ll:

Have built infrastructure the rest of the team ships agents on top of
Know all the major components of our system and be able to debug complex issues across i
Write proposals and drive major architecture discussions
Spec and architect large projects, gather feedback, and drive design validation and rollout plans
Have made RevenueCat an AI native company in large part because you built the engine underneath it
Have your own initiatives for improving our product and systems, grounded in real customer priorities

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
A fully remote environment designed around autonomy and flexibility.
4-5 weeks of paid time off annually
Paid desk at a co-working space
Workspace budget and continuous learning stipend

Interviewing at RevenueCat

Our interview process is rigorous, on purpose. We’re not trying to make it difficult for the sake of stressing you out. We want to be sure that everyone we bring on is genuinely excited about this work, aligned with how we operate, and ready to thrive in a fast, high-bar environment. Curious what that actually looks like? Read more in our blog post on how we hire at RevenueCat, including tips to help you succeed.

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