About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Act as a senior technical lead for backend engineering on a small team, shaping architecture and engineering standards. The work pairs server-side engineering with applied generative AI, in close partnership with researchers, engineers and designers.
What you'll do
- Design and build backend services that form the core of a software platform.
- Create infrastructure for AI-driven workflows, media generation pipelines and live data handling.
- Take ownership of system architecture across many services, and strengthen reliability with automated tests, performance measurement and monitoring.
- Collaborate with researchers, engineers and designers to deliver new features and APIs.
- Define coding guidelines and mentor others by example to lift overall engineering quality.
- Document your work clearly and explain technical choices to colleagues working side by side in an office.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 5 to 10 years of backend engineering experience, with solid fundamentals in algorithms, data structures and system design.
- A track record of building backend systems that scale, including work with large data volumes, search and retrieval, and background job processing.
- Hands-on professional use of TypeScript and AWS.
- At least 12 months of professional experience building applications on large language models or generative AI, including autonomous agent-style systems.
- Time spent in a startup setting, either early-stage or rapidly growing.
- A formal university degree.
- Fluent English in reading, writing and speaking.
- Ability to work in the office five days a week in San Francisco, as a local resident or able to start immediately.
Bonus points
- Previous experience as a technical lead, setting direction and code standards for a team.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 225,000 to 275,000 per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week
- Full-time
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