About the company
Our client is a fast-growing consumer software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Support a busy, growing web application as a full-stack engineer with a backend emphasis. The early period centers on keeping the system healthy and fixing defects, after which the scope widens into collaborative feature work with a teammate.
What you'll do
- Provide backend and infrastructure support for a heavily used web application.
- Resolve defects and make incremental improvements during the first month.
- Take on a growing share of feature development as you settle in.
- Partner with a colleague on product work, gradually taking on more of the product side.
- Keep a rapidly scaling application reliable and steadily better.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Solid full-stack engineering skills with a backend orientation, ideally shown by prior server-side work.
- Around 2 to 4 years of professional engineering experience.
- Habit of writing and reasoning through code personally rather than relying wholly on AI assistants.
- Readiness to become productive quickly in a production environment with significant traffic.
- A real personal connection to music, such as playing an instrument or knowing some theory.
- Ideally a past side project or hackathon build in or near the music space.
Bonus points
- Background in consumer products.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 150,000 to 200,000 per year
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site
- Full-time
Skills Required
- Solid full-stack software engineering skills with a backend orientation and prior server-side experience
- Approximately 2 to 4 years of professional engineering experience
- Ability to write and reason through code independently rather than relying wholly on AI assistants
- Ability to become productive quickly in a high-traffic production environment
- Personal connection to music, such as playing an instrument or understanding music theory
- Previous side project or hackathon build in or near the music space
- Experience with consumer products
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.
