About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead a software engineering team that owns a broad set of third-party connectors, splitting time between people leadership and hands-on technical work. Set priorities, coach engineers and keep the team delivering quickly at a high standard.
What you'll do
- Lead by example and raise the bar for technical execution across the team.
- Prioritize incoming requests for new and enhanced connectors, balancing near-term business needs with longer-term engineering improvements.
- Improve data throughput to varied external systems through parallelism, batching, rate-limit handling and algorithmic optimization.
- Stay hands-on with engineering work alongside the team.
- Mentor and guide engineers, giving them high ownership and autonomy.
- Work with customers and partners to design solutions for new use cases.
- Recruit, hire and develop software engineers.
- Explore how AI tools can help the team ship faster and with higher quality.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Prior people-management background of about 1 to 4 years, such as a team lead or early-stage engineering manager role, including recruiting and leading software engineers.
- A history of engineering work on shared infrastructure layers, such as data movement, external APIs or synchronization systems.
- A player-coach approach and comfort pairing with engineers on technical work regularly.
- Meaningful time at a high-growth startup, having joined during a phase of rapid scaling.
- A degree in computer science, math or a similar field.
- A record of impact and career progression, with average tenure longer than 2 years.
- Enthusiasm for quick delivery cycles and compact, hands-on projects.
- Ability to reason from first principles and form clear opinions on ambiguous problems.
- Clear communication and a passion for mentoring newer engineers.
Bonus points
- Background in performance tuning, such as parallel processing and batching.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 320,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- Remote (US or Canada)
- Full-time
Skills Required
- 1 to 4 years of people-management experience, such as team lead or early-stage engineering manager experience
- Experience recruiting and leading software engineers
- Engineering experience with shared infrastructure layers, data movement, external APIs, or synchronization systems
- Comfort with a player-coach role and regular hands-on technical work
- Meaningful experience at a high-growth startup during rapid scaling
- Degree in computer science, mathematics, or a similar field
- Demonstrated impact and career progression, with average tenure longer than two years
- Ability to work in fast delivery cycles on compact, hands-on projects
- Ability to reason from first principles and make clear decisions on ambiguous problems
- Clear communication and enthusiasm for mentoring newer engineers
- Performance-tuning experience with parallel processing and batching
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.
