Senior Backend Software Engineer

About the company

Our client is a consumer technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead backend and infrastructure work for a high-traffic consumer web platform, keeping services dependable and quick while building the systems behind new features. You will diagnose issues from the user-facing symptom to the root cause and own technical decisions on a very small team.

What you'll do

• Build the infrastructure that supports new product features, including recommendation, model training and serving pipelines.
• Own production reliability through monitoring, logging, incident response and fixes that remove root causes.
• Tune the speed and fault tolerance of the API layer, data access, caching, asynchronous processing and live connections.
• Keep strengthening the existing stack, including protection against automated abuse.
• Make architecture and capacity decisions as usage grows, and shape how the team deploys, observes and recovers services.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• At least 4 years of software engineering experience, with a meaningful share spent on backend or infrastructure systems.
• Experience running significant backend systems in production, beyond writing the code.
• Strong skills in TypeScript/Node.js and PostgreSQL.
• Versatile enough to debug across multiple layers of a system, even in areas that are new to you.
• Comfort taking an ambiguous problem to a production fix with little direction on a small, high-ownership team.
• Able to work on-site 5 days a week.

Bonus points

• Experience with NestJS, Redis or Kubernetes.
• Background in distributed systems or GPU infrastructure.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year
• Health, dental and vision coverage
• Retirement plan with employer match

Location and work model

• San Francisco, CA, United States
• On-site, 5 days a week in office
• Full-time