About the company
Our client is a fast-growing financial technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the backend services that handle payment flows and identity checks as a product moves into live production use. The work covers security, reliability, compliance controls and performance, with an emphasis on correctness and recoverability.
What you'll do
- Build protective controls into the code itself, keeping sensitive card data scope small and covering credentials, permissions, activity records and attack analysis.
- Manage cloud infrastructure as code, along with automated build and deployment pipelines, staged releases and rollback procedures.
- Ensure payment authorization, settlement and reconciliation logic is safe to retry, traceable and easy to recover.
- Set and monitor reliability targets, add instrumentation, prevent outages and write clear operational runbooks.
- Improve response times on the transaction path and reduce the cost of each transaction.
- Set architecture direction, write production code and take on-call responsibility for the systems you ship.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Experience building backend systems that other engineers and teams rely on.
- Solid grasp of keeping operations correct when things fail, including repeat-safe requests, retries, distributed state and failure modes.
- Everyday safety habits: limiting access to what is needed, handling credentials with care, keeping activity records and anticipating how a system could be attacked.
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code.
- Proficiency in TypeScript or Python.
- Clear written communication about incidents, root causes and fixes.
- Availability to work roughly six days a week, Sunday through Friday.
- 2 to 5 years of relevant experience.
Bonus points
- Experience with AWS.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 140,000 to 300,000 per year
- Health, dental and vision coverage
Location and work model
- San Francisco, California, United States
- On-site
- Roughly 6 days a week (Sunday through Friday), with flexibility on weekends
- Full-time
Skills Required
- Experience building backend systems relied upon by other engineers and teams
- Understanding of failure handling, idempotent requests, retries, distributed state, and failure modes
- Experience with access control, credential security, activity logging, and threat awareness
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code
- Proficiency in TypeScript or Python
- Clear written communication regarding incidents, root causes, and fixes
- Availability to work approximately six days per week, Sunday through Friday
- Two to five years of relevant experience
- Experience with AWS
What We Do
Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.
