About the company
Our client is a software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join a small, senior engineering group as a generalist focused on backend and data work. You will build data processing pipelines, keep large-scale data collection dependable, and expose core services to other systems, working as an individual contributor.
What you'll do
- Build pipelines that enrich documents with derived metadata and relationships between records.
- Create systems that keep a large fleet of web scrapers reliable and accurate.
- Optimize and evaluate core utilities for parsing and resolving references in text.
- Expose core data services through APIs and other programmatic interfaces.
- Benchmark and evaluate key tasks using both human and synthetic methods.
- Stand up projects end-to-end on your preferred infrastructure, favoring simple solutions to complex problems.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Strong engineering fundamentals, with ownership valued over loyalty to any one stack.
- At least 2 years of hands-on engineering in a small, fast-moving company, or several years in an organization with a demanding engineering culture.
- Willingness to work in a pure individual contributor role.
- Demonstrated interest or experience with statistics, machine learning or AI.
- Fluency with modern AI tooling and a practical, balanced view of it.
- A track record of taking real responsibility for outcomes, such as launching new work from scratch or joining a company at an early stage.
- Technical generalist breadth across the backend and comfort working with data pipelines.
Bonus points
- Proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Basic to intermediate infrastructure and devops experience.
- Full-stack experience.
- Side projects, an active GitHub or work examples that stand out.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 170,000 to 240,000 per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement plan
Location and work model
- New York, New York, United States
- On-site
- Full-time
Skills Required
- At least 2 years of hands-on engineering experience in a small, fast-moving company, or several years in a demanding engineering organization
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Willingness to work as an individual contributor
- Demonstrated interest or experience with statistics, machine learning, or AI
- Fluency with modern AI tooling
- Track record of taking responsibility for outcomes, such as launching work from scratch or joining an early-stage company
- Technical generalist breadth across backend engineering and data pipelines
- Proficiency in Python and SQL
- Basic to intermediate infrastructure and DevOps experience
- Full-stack experience
- Side projects, active GitHub, or standout work examples
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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