About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take responsibility for core backend services at a high-scale software platform, shaping them from initial architecture through live operation. Partner with product, design and engineering leaders to untangle unclear technical challenges, and use AI coding assistants as a routine part of daily work.
What you'll do
- Lead the architecture, delivery and ongoing operation of key services and product capabilities.
- Develop and maintain distributed data-processing systems, choosing suitable tools such as a message queue and databases for each problem.
- Turn vague, difficult technical challenges into clear plans and deliver them, staying accountable for uptime, speed and cost efficiency.
- Create intelligent agent-based software features for a broad global audience.
- Work with product, design and engineering leadership on problems that span several teams.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 5 to 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Time spent at startups, AI-focused companies or in an early engineering team.
- A track record of steadily taking on greater scope and responsibility.
- Experience running high-traffic distributed platforms in production.
- Solid system design skills for data-heavy, distributed architectures.
- Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails or Python, plus a document store or search engine.
- Practical experience using AI coding assistants.
- Either deep database expertise or experience building applications on large language models, ideally gained at a respected high-growth company.
- Residence in the San Francisco Bay Area and willingness to be in the office 3 days per week.
Bonus points
- A computer science degree from a leading university, though extensive hands-on experience can offset this.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 170,000 to 311,000 per year
- Equity
- Performance bonus
- Flexible hybrid work
- Professional development support
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Hybrid, 3 days per week in office
- Full-time
Skills Required
- 5 to 8 years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience at startups, AI-focused companies, or early engineering teams
- Progressively greater scope and responsibility
- Experience running high-traffic distributed platforms in production
- Strong system design skills for data-heavy distributed architectures
- Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails or Python
- Experience with a document store or search engine
- Practical experience using AI coding assistants
- Deep database expertise or experience building applications on large language models
- Residence in the San Francisco Bay Area and willingness to work in the office three days per week
- Computer science degree from a leading university
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.
