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. Own engineering projects from initial design through delivery on a small team, working across the whole application. Contribute to product decisions, talk directly with users, and build features that use language models.

What you'll do

• Lead projects from design document to shipped release, covering user interface, services and data storage.
• Take part in product and design conversations and speak directly with users about what is being built.
• Build and refine application features powered by large language models, and assess the quality of their output.
• Use AI-assisted coding tools in everyday development.
• Work closely with fellow engineers, product leadership and a designer in an environment with few meetings.
• Influence team working practices and the technical direction of the codebase as the organization expands.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• 4 to 8 years of software engineering experience.
• A history of delivering products from start to finish at a startup or a technology company of any size.
• Prior experience as a founder or as an early engineer at a startup.
• A degree in computer science or a related field.
• Comfort working on both client-side and server-side code plus databases, using a current programming language.
• Good product and design instincts, including writing design documents, weighing product tradeoffs and thinking about user experience.
• Hands-on experience shipping product features built on large language models.
• Clear communication and a strong drive to deliver quickly.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 215,000 to 280,000 per year
• Equity

Location and work model

• Los Angeles, CA, United States
• On-site, 4-5 days per week in office
• Full-time