About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join a small, in-person engineering group as a full stack engineer, taking responsibility for significant parts of a software platform. You will work across backend services, third-party integrations and user-facing features, and help shape technical direction with company leadership.
What you'll do
- Design, build and release major product features from first concept to live deployment.
- Develop and maintain low-latency backend infrastructure, improving performance, reliability and support for more intricate workflows.
- Build and maintain integrations between the platform and external software systems.
- Collaborate directly with users to understand their day-to-day processes and shape them into clear, dependable product experiences.
- Take ownership of broad areas of the codebase with real autonomy and help make architecture decisions.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 1 to 3 years of software engineering experience with solid fundamentals across the full stack.
- Good product instincts about what to build and how it should feel for the user.
- Ability to bring structure to unclear requirements and deliver practical, working software with a strong sense of ownership.
- Eagerness to pick up any part of the stack needed to get the job done, including productive use of AI coding assistants.
- Ability to work on-site in San Francisco.
Bonus points
- Experience tuning and scaling Postgres databases.
- Experience building and operating production systems.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 160,000 to 220,000 per year
- Equity
- Bonus
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site
- Full-time
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