Staff 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. Serve as a senior technical leader who guides design decisions and engineering direction for a major part of a software platform. Take on the toughest technical challenges, collaborate with leaders across engineering and product, and help lift the quality bar across several teams.

What you'll do

• Guide system design and long-term technical strategy for a major platform domain, covering either data-heavy backend infrastructure or AI-driven product work.
• Take the lead on the most difficult engineering challenges, weighing build, buy and cost options that affect the wider organization.
• Define shared conventions and best practices that help multiple teams deliver better work and help other engineers be more effective.
• Work with product and engineering executives so that technical choices support business priorities.
• Apply modern AI coding assistants routinely when designing, debugging and delivering solutions.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a record of steadily growing scope and responsibility.
• Hands-on history running high-traffic, scalable backend systems in production.
• Startup or early-stage experience; candidates from large technology companies should have worked at least once in a startup.
• Strong system design skills for data-intensive and distributed architectures.
• Deep database expertise or experience building applications on large language models.
• Working experience with Python or Ruby on Rails.
• Practical experience using AI coding assistants in daily development.
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to be in the office 3 days per week.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 217,000 to 410,000 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