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. Serve as a senior engineer on a compact product engineering group, covering backend and full-stack work. You will take features from idea to release, shape data design and platform dependability, and guide engineering practices alongside colleagues in product, design and sales.

What you'll do

• Evolve the infrastructure behind a large-scale automated processing platform, with attention to dependability, orchestration and speed.
• Own a system that organizes and removes duplicates from generated findings so they stay useful over time.
• Collaborate with product, design, AI, front-end and sales colleagues to understand customer needs and translate them into new capabilities.
• Guide database design and query performance across relational and analytical stores as usage and workloads increase.
• Carry features from initial scoping through to live release, including analytics functionality and tooling for automated agents.
• Establish and maintain team conventions for code quality, interface design and schema design to speed up delivery and reduce defects.
• Lift the team's backend and data design practices through example and mentoring.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience running and building backend services in production.
• Comfort contributing to both front-end and back-end code, without needing to be a front-end specialist.
• Strong schema design skills and deep working knowledge of PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with APIs and database systems.
• A history of independently taking significant projects from start to finish.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup with minimal supervision.
• A bachelor's degree, ideally in computer science.

Bonus points

• Experience creating user-facing features powered by large language models, such as chatbots or agent tooling.
• Background in shaping technical practices at an early-stage AI company.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 180,000 to 220,000 per year
• Equity
• Health, dental and vision coverage
• Retirement plan with matching
• Unlimited paid time off
• Professional development support

Location and work model

• New York, NY, United States
• On-site, 4 days per week in the office
• Full-time