About the company
Our client is a fast-growing technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own core data infrastructure and full-stack applications as an early engineer working directly with company founders. You will design the architecture, set engineering standards and ship features quickly across web interfaces and high-volume data pipelines.
What you'll do
- Build and scale data-capture workflows across web and desktop applications, owning reliability and throughput end to end.
- Design and tune data pipelines that hold up under heavy production load.
- Establish engineering best practices and lay architectural foundations for a growing team.
- Work closely with the founders to shape product direction and deliver features quickly.
- Make greenfield infrastructure decisions covering storage, caching, search and messaging.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Strong coding fundamentals in TypeScript and Python.
- Solid grasp of distributed systems, scalability and system design.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, container orchestration, APIs and NoSQL databases.
- Ability to weigh trade-offs and balance delivery speed against reliability.
- Clear communicator with a sense of ownership, curiosity and a preference for simple solutions to complex problems.
- 0 to 4 years of relevant engineering experience.
Bonus points
- Exposure to machine learning tooling or workflows that combine automation with manual review.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 260,000 to 290,000 per year
- Equity
- Health insurance
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site
- Full-time
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