About the company
Our client is a technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Improve the shared engineering systems, build workflows and in-house utilities that a large group of engineers depends on daily. Serve as a senior technical leader who mentors colleagues, sets team standards, and helps others move faster and ship with confidence.
What you'll do
- Refine how code travels from a developer's machine to production, streamlining the setup engineers use every day across the whole company.
- Work alongside colleagues from several adjacent groups to pinpoint slowdowns and deliver the most valuable fixes.
- Assess AI-assisted coding tools, choose which to adopt, add safeguards and measure their real effect on productivity.
- Set developer experience standards, documentation and operational runbooks that keep pace with company growth.
- Lead as a senior technical voice, mentoring future hires and proposing improvements rather than only following a set plan.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Senior-level engineering experience, comfortable acting as a tech lead and mentor.
- Multi-year experience at a high-growth startup during periods of rapid scaling.
- Track record creating shared systems and utilities that internal engineers depend on.
- Strong security awareness, particularly around build pipelines and backend systems.
- Fluency in a modern backend programming language.
- Hands-on background engineering server-side foundations that keep working as load and codebase size grow.
- Experience collaborating across several engineering teams.
Bonus points
- Experience using Protocol Buffers.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 225,000 to 275,000 per year
- Equity
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible time off
- Relocation support
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States, or Washington, DC, United States
- Hybrid, with 3 days in office per week
- Full-time
Skills Required
- Senior-level engineering experience with the ability to act as a technical lead and mentor
- Multi-year experience at a high-growth startup during periods of rapid scaling
- Track record creating shared systems and utilities used by internal engineers
- Strong security awareness, particularly involving build pipelines and backend systems
- Fluency in a modern backend programming language
- Hands-on experience engineering server-side foundations that scale with increasing load and codebase size
- Experience collaborating across multiple engineering teams
- Experience using Protocol Buffers
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.
