About the company
Our client is a financial technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own significant backend initiatives from initial scoping through production release, partnering with technical leadership and non-technical colleagues. You will make design decisions for backend infrastructure and build automation that handles sensitive data with care. This is a high-autonomy position on a small engineering team.
What you'll do
- Break down broad product initiatives into manageable pieces and deliver them to production independently.
- Make architecture and design decisions that shape backend infrastructure.
- Work with product and non-technical stakeholders to shape ideas and direction.
- Build and improve AI-powered automation for transaction and workflow processing.
- Suggest and implement improvements to tooling and team processes as an early member of a small team.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 6 to 12 years of experience shipping production backend systems at a company operating at scale.
- Background in fintech or healthtech, such as payments, billing or claims.
- Degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field; adjacent degrees from strong programs are considered, and bootcamp graduates need substantially more experience.
- Strong backend skills in Node.js or a comparable framework.
- Experience designing and delivering backend systems that handle sensitive data at scale, using PostgreSQL or a similar database.
- Uses AI tooling by default in day-to-day development and is comfortable in an AI-first engineering culture.
- Clear written and verbal communication with non-technical stakeholders.
- Able to deliver independently with little structure or support, and to make progress when requirements are unclear.
- Demonstrated interest in healthcare or fintech.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 175,000 to 225,000 per year
- Equity
- Health coverage
- Paid parental leave
- Unlimited paid time off
Location and work model
- New York, NY or San Francisco, CA, United States
- Hybrid, 3 days per week in office
- Full-time
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