About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Design, build and run backend modules for a software platform, taking responsibility from early scoping through release and production support. Work alongside engineering and customer-facing colleagues to turn bespoke solutions into reusable products, including automated AI-driven workflows.
What you'll do
- Design and build backend platform modules that support business operations at scale.
- Take charge of a product area across its full lifecycle, with attention to reliability, security and low error rates.
- Collaborate with deployed engineers, customer success and technical leadership to generalize one-off solutions into reusable products.
- Develop and operate AI agents in production, adding testing, safeguards, monitoring and feedback mechanisms.
- Lead infrastructure initiatives from planning to rollout, such as internal tooling that lets non-technical colleagues set up custom modules.
- Shape data structures, processing pipelines and connections to third-party systems, including those that lack APIs.
- Handle on-call rotation and root-cause investigations for the systems you build.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- At least 4 years of backend or systems engineering experience, with 6 to 7 years ideal; full-stack is fine if backend-heavy.
- Experience running reliable, scalable production systems.
- A degree from a top engineering school or engineering experience at a high-caliber technology company.
- A history of taking a service or module from concept to stable production use on your own.
- Hands-on experience delivering LLM-based or agent-based features to production users, as an applied engineer rather than a model researcher.
- Daily use of AI coding tools.
- Comfort working independently in a fast-paced, in-person team.
- Ability to work on-site 5 days a week.
Bonus points
- Experience at a fast-growing startup.
- Experience with Python or TypeScript.
- Top engineering school background.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 190,000 to 250,000 per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Flexible time off
Location and work model
- San Francisco, California, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week
- Full-time
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