Senior Software Engineer

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take responsibility for core backend services at a high-scale software platform, shaping them from initial architecture through live operation. Partner with product, design and engineering leaders to untangle unclear technical challenges, and use AI coding assistants as a routine part of daily work.

What you'll do

• Lead the architecture, delivery and ongoing operation of key services and product capabilities.
• Develop and maintain distributed data-processing systems, choosing suitable tools such as a message queue and databases for each problem.
• Turn vague, difficult technical challenges into clear plans and deliver them, staying accountable for uptime, speed and cost efficiency.
• Create intelligent agent-based software features for a broad global audience.
• Work with product, design and engineering leadership on problems that span several teams.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• 5 to 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Time spent at startups, AI-focused companies or in an early engineering team.
• A track record of steadily taking on greater scope and responsibility.
• Experience running high-traffic distributed platforms in production.
• Solid system design skills for data-heavy, distributed architectures.
• Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails or Python, plus a document store or search engine.
• Practical experience using AI coding assistants.
• Either deep database expertise or experience building applications on large language models, ideally gained at a respected high-growth company.
• Residence in the San Francisco Bay Area and willingness to be in the office 3 days per week.

Bonus points

• A computer science degree from a leading university, though extensive hands-on experience can offset this.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 170,000 to 311,000 per year
• Equity
• Performance bonus
• Flexible hybrid work
• Professional development support

Location and work model

• San Francisco, CA, United States
• Hybrid, 3 days per week in office
• Full-time