About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as a senior engineer on a compact product engineering group, covering backend and full-stack work. You will take features from idea to release, shape data design and platform dependability, and guide engineering practices alongside colleagues in product, design and sales.
What you'll do
- Evolve the infrastructure behind a large-scale automated processing platform, with attention to dependability, orchestration and speed.
- Own a system that organizes and removes duplicates from generated findings so they stay useful over time.
- Collaborate with product, design, AI, front-end and sales colleagues to understand customer needs and translate them into new capabilities.
- Guide database design and query performance across relational and analytical stores as usage and workloads increase.
- Carry features from initial scoping through to live release, including analytics functionality and tooling for automated agents.
- Establish and maintain team conventions for code quality, interface design and schema design to speed up delivery and reduce defects.
- Lift the team's backend and data design practices through example and mentoring.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience running and building backend services in production.
- Comfort contributing to both front-end and back-end code, without needing to be a front-end specialist.
- Strong schema design skills and deep working knowledge of PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with APIs and database systems.
- A history of independently taking significant projects from start to finish.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup with minimal supervision.
- A bachelor's degree, ideally in computer science.
Bonus points
- Experience creating user-facing features powered by large language models, such as chatbots or agent tooling.
- Background in shaping technical practices at an early-stage AI company.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 180,000 to 220,000 per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement plan with matching
- Unlimited paid time off
- Professional development support
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, 4 days per week in the office
- Full-time
Skills Required
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience building and running backend services in production
- Ability to contribute to both frontend and backend code
- Strong schema design skills
- Deep working knowledge of PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with APIs and database systems
- Experience independently taking significant projects from start to finish
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup with minimal supervision
- Bachelor's degree, ideally in computer science
- Experience creating user-facing features powered by large language models, such as chatbots or agent tooling
- Experience shaping technical practices at an early-stage AI company
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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