Founding Software Engineer

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
250K-275K Annually
Senior level
Professional Services • Consulting
The Role
Own customer deployments for an AI-powered software platform, including integrations, bug fixes, feature development, tuning, and evaluation. Work directly with customers to translate requests into shipped features, launch pilots, and support conversion to contracts. Shape product direction, engineering culture, and hiring while collaborating with senior engineering leadership. The role requires full-stack or backend development, production experience with large language model applications, and startup experience.
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About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the technical delivery of customer deployments for a software platform, from integration work through ongoing tuning. Work directly with customers and a very small engineering team, deciding what to build from loosely defined requests and helping shape the engineering culture and future hiring.

What you'll do

- Fix bugs and ship platform extensions early on, then take ownership of a product area and later a major customer account.

- Build and tune the behavior of AI-powered features across several communication channels, including tool use and evaluation.

- Work directly with customer contacts to handle their ongoing feature requests and questions.

- Take new customer pilots from kickoff to first value and help convert them into contracts.

- Partner closely with senior engineering leadership to shape the product, the engineering culture and hiring.


Requirements

What we're looking for

- 4 to 8 years of experience as a product or full-stack engineer.

- Direct customer-facing experience, turning customer requests into shipped features.

- A track record of taking applications powered by large language models into production use by live users.

- Full-stack or backend engineering experience, ideally with TypeScript, Python or Postgres.

- Experience working at a startup.

- Ability to decide what to build from an ambiguous request.

- Availability to start by mid-November 2026.

Bonus points

- Experience with voice or telephony infrastructure.

- Background at a customer experience or payments technology company.


Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 250,000 to 275,000 per year

- Equity

- Relocation support

Location and work model

- San Francisco, California, United States

- Hybrid, 3 days per week in the office

- Full-time

Skills Required

  • 4 to 8 years of experience as a product or full-stack engineer
  • Direct customer-facing experience turning customer requests into shipped features
  • Track record of taking large language model-powered applications into production for live users
  • Full-stack or backend engineering experience
  • Experience with TypeScript, Python, or PostgreSQL
  • Experience working at a startup
  • Ability to decide what to build from ambiguous requests
  • Availability to start by mid-November 2026
  • Experience with voice or telephony infrastructure
  • Background at a customer experience or payments technology company
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The Company
28 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

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.

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