About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join an engineering team as a senior full-stack contributor, shipping production code from the start and owning high-impact projects end to end. Work spans application features, third-party integrations and cloud infrastructure, with an emphasis on dependable systems and fast delivery.
What you'll do
- Design, build and launch complex multi-step automation features powered by AI.
- Integrate with external provider APIs for document generation, automated decisioning and fraud prevention.
- Architect and roll out a new generation of background job processing infrastructure in the cloud, improving visibility into system behavior and stability.
- Develop full-stack web application features from design through deployment.
- Keep systems secure and maintainable as usage grows.
- Contribute product ideas and think through the product implications of what you build.
- Mentor less senior engineers where the opportunity arises.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Experience at a technology company where software was the core product, ideally a high-growth startup.
- Strong hands-on TypeScript proficiency, with clear examples of complex systems or products built recently.
- Experience growing cloud-hosted systems that handle heavy workloads, using AWS and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Working knowledge of React, Node.js and Postgres.
- A track record of tenure and progression of 2+ years within the same company.
- Experience in high-growth tech companies, such as venture-scale startups or large technology firms.
- A keen eye for security risks when handling sensitive data.
- Ability to work remotely during US time zones.
Bonus points
- Familiarity with modern AI product development practices such as evaluations, experiment design and dataset curation.
- An operations-minded approach to building infrastructure that is stable, easy to monitor and simple to maintain.
- Experience designing and scaling complex relational database schemas.
- Fintech experience.
- Active GitHub profile or side projects.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 150,000 to 350,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- Remote (US)
- Full-time
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