About the company
Our client is a fast-growing financial technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the design and architecture of core backend systems for a real-time product, taking features from first design through to live production. Contribute across the entire product in a compact, office-based engineering team, with emphasis on speed and resilience.
What you'll do
- Design and own core backend systems for low-latency, real-time services.
- Drive performance and reliability improvements using event-driven designs and parallel processing.
- Collaborate with a small engineering group and company founders across infrastructure, backend and reliability work.
- Deploy, operate and scale fault-tolerant distributed systems on container orchestration.
- Take features from initial design through to live production, often within days.
- Help build and refine machine learning systems that improve from ongoing feedback.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Computer Science degree.
- Prior work building fast, time-sensitive backend or full-stack software.
- Strong database design and performance optimization skills.
- Solid grasp of how multi-node software stays available and recovers from failures.
- Hands-on history of carrying backend services from build through to running in production, with full accountability.
- Comfort owning design and architecture across an entire product.
- Familiarity with AI and large language models.
- Backend or full-stack experience rather than frontend work alone.
Bonus points
- Four or more years of experience.
- Background in creating or running machine learning models in live environments.
- Startup, founder or mid-size company experience, including after a large technology company.
- Python experience.
- A degree from a strong university computer science program.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 250K to 320K
- Equity
Location and work model
- San Francisco, California, United States
- On-site, 5 days a week
- Full-time
Skills Required
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience
- Computer Science degree
- Experience building fast, time-sensitive backend or full-stack software
- Strong database design and performance optimization skills
- Understanding of highly available, failure-recovering multi-node software
- Experience carrying backend services from development through production operations
- Ability to own design and architecture across an entire product
- Familiarity with artificial intelligence and large language models
- Backend or full-stack experience
- Four or more years of experience
- Experience creating or operating machine learning models in production
- Startup, founder, or mid-size company experience, including experience after a large technology company
- Python experience
- Degree from a strong university computer science program
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.
