About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take responsibility for core backend services at a high-scale software platform, shaping them from initial architecture through live operation. Partner with product, design and engineering leaders to untangle unclear technical challenges, and use AI coding assistants as a routine part of daily work.
What you'll do
- Lead the architecture, delivery and ongoing operation of key services and product capabilities.
- Develop and maintain distributed data-processing systems, choosing suitable tools such as a message queue and databases for each problem.
- Turn vague, difficult technical challenges into clear plans and deliver them, staying accountable for uptime, speed and cost efficiency.
- Create intelligent agent-based software features for a broad global audience.
- Work with product, design and engineering leadership on problems that span several teams.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 5 to 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Time spent at startups, AI-focused companies or in an early engineering team.
- A track record of steadily taking on greater scope and responsibility.
- Experience running high-traffic distributed platforms in production.
- Solid system design skills for data-heavy, distributed architectures.
- Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails or Python, plus a document store or search engine.
- Practical experience using AI coding assistants.
- Either deep database expertise or experience building applications on large language models, ideally gained at a respected high-growth company.
- Residence in the San Francisco Bay Area and willingness to be in the office 3 days per week.
Bonus points
- A computer science degree from a leading university, though extensive hands-on experience can offset this.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 170,000 to 311,000 per year
- Equity
- Performance bonus
- Flexible hybrid work
- Professional development support
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Hybrid, 3 days per week in office
- Full-time
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