About the company
Our client is a software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead and grow an engineering team that is building a brand-new service from scratch. The role blends hands-on technical guidance with people leadership, and involves working closely with cross-functional partners to turn plans into delivered work.
What you'll do
- Recruit, organize and lead engineers through the design, build and release of a new data storage service.
- Guide technical direction and architecture choices, weighing the tradeoffs that come with stateful distributed systems.
- Collaborate with product, design and infrastructure colleagues to shape a roadmap and deliver features.
- Coach engineers through hiring, ongoing feedback and performance reviews.
- Encourage accountability and steady improvement on the team while keeping delivery pace in balance with stability and quality.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- At least 8 years as a practicing software engineer who has delivered products, ideally with exposure to stateful or distributed systems.
- At least 2 years managing engineers, including recruiting, coaching and handling performance.
- Enough technical depth to contribute to architecture and design discussions, acting as a player-coach instead of a purely administrative manager.
- A product mindset and a track record of shaping engineering plans around user and company priorities.
Bonus points
- Background working on developer-facing tools, cloud services or large-scale distributed systems.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 204,000 to 289,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- Remote (US)
- Full-time
Skills Required
- At least 8 years of experience as a practicing software engineer delivering products
- At least 2 years of experience managing engineers
- Experience recruiting, coaching, and handling engineer performance
- Technical depth to contribute to architecture and design discussions as a player-coach
- Product mindset and experience aligning engineering plans with user and company priorities
- Experience with stateful or distributed systems
- Background working on developer-facing tools, cloud services, or large-scale distributed systems
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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.
