About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the design and delivery of backend services and APIs at a senior level, collaborating with peers on integrations and cross-functional features. Keep core systems reliable and performant as usage grows, and help raise engineering standards across teams.
What you'll do
- Scope, design and build resilient, high-performing backend services.
- Team up with other engineers to ship integrations and multi-part backend features.
- Maintain and improve existing integrations while planning ahead for future needs and growth.
- Diagnose and fix defects, performance bottlenecks and developer-experience pain points in the codebase.
- Push forward engineering practices and technical improvements.
- Create a shared internal API over company data and store large volumes of metrics gathered from external providers.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- At least six years of hands-on experience shipping and running production software at scale.
- Strong backend and third-party API experience, with willingness to work across the stack when needed.
- A record of taking products from zero to one, including AI features running in production.
- A career spent mostly at startups, with recent time at an AI-focused company.
- Experience with asynchronous message queue systems.
- Experience with MongoDB or a similar document database.
- Comfort with data modeling, ETL pipelines and streamlining how data is structured.
- If Node.js is not your main language, evidence of picking up new languages and stacks quickly in early-stage settings.
- Experience working directly with clients or non-technical stakeholders.
- Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to explain technical matters in business terms.
- Pragmatic problem solving and the ability to thrive amid shifting priorities.
- Interest in AI and machine learning.
- Based in North America or Western Europe.
Bonus points
- Deep backend experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
- Experience with event-driven or asynchronous systems.
- Founder or founding engineer experience.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: CAD 200,000 to 250,000 per year
- Equity
- Health coverage
- Paid time off
- Wellness and home office stipends
Location and work model
- Remote (US or Canada)
- Full-time
Skills Required
- At least six years of hands-on experience shipping and running production software at scale
- Strong backend and third-party API experience
- Experience taking products from zero to one, including AI features in production
- Primarily startup career experience, including recent experience at an AI-focused company
- Experience with asynchronous message queue systems
- Experience with MongoDB or a similar document database
- Experience with data modeling and ETL pipelines
- Ability to learn new languages and technology stacks quickly in early-stage environments
- Experience working directly with clients or non-technical stakeholders
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Ability to explain technical matters in business terms
- Pragmatic problem-solving skills and ability to thrive amid shifting priorities
- Interest in AI and machine learning
- Based in North America or Western Europe
- Deep backend experience with Node.js and TypeScript
- Experience with event-driven or asynchronous systems
- Founder or founding engineer experience
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.
