About the company
Our client is a consumer technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take the senior technical leadership seat, setting architecture and engineering direction while staying close to the code. The role blends hands-on development with guiding a distributed team, and it grows into oversight of all engineers as the group expands.
What you'll do
- Own technical decisions and the roadmap across mobile, backend and infrastructure, turning product vision into a workable plan.
- Lead day-to-day delivery with a remote offshore engineering team, including writing and assigning tickets, managing timelines and triaging bugs.
- Work directly in the code to keep the application fast and reliable when many users act at once.
- Spot real operational problems, build automated fixes, and lead third-party integrations from start to finish.
- Use AI tools to speed up development and help colleagues adopt them.
- Grow into managing all engineers as the team scales.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- A track record shipping apps for everyday consumers on mobile devices.
- An AI-forward working style that uses AI tools to raise development productivity.
- Prior experience guiding other engineers, whether as a team lead, engineering head, mentor or project owner.
- Background tuning systems for speed and responsiveness under heavy simultaneous usage, including on mobile.
- Production experience with React Native and Node.js, plus AWS.
Bonus points
- Already based in the New York area.
- Familiarity with Expo.
- Time spent at an early-stage startup or working closely with founders.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 225,000 to 285,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- Hybrid, number of in-office days to be determined
- Full-time
Skills Required
- Track record shipping consumer mobile applications
- AI-forward working style using AI tools to improve development productivity
- Experience guiding other engineers as a team lead, engineering head, mentor, or project owner
- Experience tuning systems for speed and responsiveness under heavy simultaneous usage, including mobile
- Production experience with React Native
- Production experience with Node.js
- Production experience with AWS
- Based in the New York area
- Familiarity with Expo
- Experience at an early-stage startup or working closely with founders
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.
