About the company
Our client is a software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join a small engineering team as an early hire, building and maturing a software product from design through delivery. You will work directly with customers to understand their needs and turn them into dependable, shipped features, covering both application development and supporting infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Build and improve automated software agents that produce custom data pipelines, scrapers and dashboards for customers.
- Manage remote development environments and the infrastructure behind customer deployments.
- Speak directly with customers to understand their goals and collaborate on tailored solutions.
- Take features from zero to one, including design, scoping and final delivery.
- Develop reusable tools, libraries and scaffolding that expand the platform's capabilities over time.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 2 to 4 years of engineering experience.
- Experience building applications powered by large language models or autonomous coding agents.
- A proven record of shipping full-stack products end-to-end.
- Hands-on experience moving data from many different origins into usable form, including pulling content from websites and connecting to third-party services.
- A strong engineering background at a well-known technology company or startup, or verifiable significant impact elsewhere.
- Customer-facing engineering experience turning client requirements into shipped product.
- A CS or STEM degree from a top university.
Bonus points
- Familiarity with the financial sector or data-driven research tools.
- Notable projects, open-source contributions or writing that show craft and initiative.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 165,000 to 210,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in office
- Full-time
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