About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join a very small engineering group as an early hire, working across the front end, back end and infrastructure of a customer-facing software product. You will ship features, diagnose production issues and help set technical standards for future engineers. Expect broad ownership with little prescribed structure.
What you'll do
- Build and ship features across the full stack, from user interface to backend services.
- Develop and refine systems built on large language models, including conversation flow, tool use and voice.
- Prototype adaptive interface components and turn ideas into working demos quickly.
- Build and maintain an evaluation pipeline that measures output quality and catches regressions.
- Investigate production issues by reviewing logs, tracing root causes, rolling back changes and adding tests.
- Design infrastructure for versioning and safe previewing of changes before release.
- Create low-latency, reliable infrastructure so users get instant responses.
- Take on whatever work is needed, including UI fixes, data migration scripts and customer issue debugging.
- Help establish engineering culture and practices as the team grows.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Prior full stack engineering work at a growing software startup that has paying users.
- A track record of designing polished interfaces and shipping product features that users directly interact with.
- Working proficiency in React and Python.
- Hands-on delivery of AI-powered features in production, such as LLM-driven assistants, retrieval pipelines or orchestration layers.
- A bachelor's degree in computer science.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a strong sense of ownership.
- Good product instincts and enthusiasm for turning user feedback into code.
- Sound judgment about when work is ready to ship, and the ability to move quickly without creating hidden problems.
- Experience running systems that real users depend on, and an understanding of how they fail.
- Interest in closing the gap between a demo and a reliable production system through evaluation and iteration.
Bonus points
- Experience at a sales technology startup.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 180,000 to 230,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in office
- Full-time
Skills Required
- Prior full stack engineering experience at a growing software startup with paying users
- Track record of designing polished interfaces and shipping user-facing product features
- Working proficiency in React
- Working proficiency in Python
- Hands-on experience delivering AI-powered features in production, such as LLM assistants, retrieval pipelines, or orchestration layers
- Bachelor's degree in computer science
- Comfort with ambiguity and strong ownership
- Good product instincts and ability to turn user feedback into code
- Sound judgment about release readiness and ability to move quickly without creating hidden problems
- Experience running systems used by real customers and understanding how they fail
- Interest in production evaluation and iterative improvement from demo to reliable system
- Experience at a sales technology startup
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.
