About the company
Our client is a small healthcare technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as the senior hands-on technical lead on a small product engineering team, writing and reviewing code every day while guiding more junior engineers. The work covers building customer-facing features across the full stack, including LLM-powered functionality, and the role helps set engineering practices and architecture from an early stage.
What you'll do
- Take end-to-end ownership of AI-driven product features, from early design through release.
- Lead and mentor a small group of junior engineers, setting standards for code review and engineering workflow.
- Work alongside product, customer-facing staff and company leadership to scope what gets built next.
- Design and deliver full-stack work spanning user interfaces, back-end services, infrastructure and data pipelines.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 8 or more years of software engineering experience.
- Prior experience directing the technical work of a group of engineers, including steering major initiatives and organizing colleagues' efforts.
- Product engineering background with hands-on delivery of customer-facing products built from the ground up, rather than deep infrastructure work.
- Full-stack ability to own a feature end to end, with a backend lean acceptable.
- Recent hands-on work bringing language-model-based functionality into live use over the past two years.
- Ability to set best practices for code quality and review on a team new to them.
- Works cross-functionally to understand user needs and help shape new products.
Bonus points
- Experience across both early-stage startups and larger engineering organizations.
- Computer science degree or equivalent work experience.
- Experience setting up AI evaluation or LLM observability tooling in production, and working with multi-step agentic pipelines.
- Interest in life sciences or healthcare.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 210,000 to 260,000 per year
- Equity
- Health insurance coverage
- Retirement plan
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Hybrid, 3 days in-office per week
- Full-time
Skills Required
- 8 or more years of software engineering experience
- Experience directing the technical work of a group of engineers, including leading major initiatives and organizing colleagues' efforts
- Product engineering experience delivering customer-facing products from the ground up
- Full-stack engineering ability to own features end to end
- Recent hands-on experience deploying language-model-based functionality into production within the past two years
- Ability to establish code quality and code review best practices
- Ability to work cross-functionally to understand user needs and shape new products
- Experience in both early-stage startups and larger engineering organizations
- Computer science degree or equivalent work experience
- Experience implementing AI evaluation or LLM observability tooling in production
- Experience with multi-step agentic pipelines
- Interest in life sciences or healthcare
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.
