Senior Software Engineer

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as a senior engineer on a compact product engineering group, covering backend and full-stack work. You will take features from idea to release, shape data design and platform dependability, and guide engineering practices alongside colleagues in product, design and sales.

What you'll do

- Evolve the infrastructure behind a large-scale automated processing platform, with attention to dependability, orchestration and speed.

- Own a system that organizes and removes duplicates from generated findings so they stay useful over time.

- Collaborate with product, design, AI, front-end and sales colleagues to understand customer needs and translate them into new capabilities.

- Guide database design and query performance across relational and analytical stores as usage and workloads increase.

- Carry features from initial scoping through to live release, including analytics functionality and tooling for automated agents.

- Establish and maintain team conventions for code quality, interface design and schema design to speed up delivery and reduce defects.

- Lift the team's backend and data design practices through example and mentoring.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- At least 3 years of hands-on experience running and building backend services in production.

- Comfort contributing to both front-end and back-end code, without needing to be a front-end specialist.

- Strong schema design skills and deep working knowledge of PostgreSQL.

- Familiarity with APIs and database systems.

- A history of independently taking significant projects from start to finish.

- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup with minimal supervision.

- A bachelor's degree, ideally in computer science.

Bonus points

- Experience creating user-facing features powered by large language models, such as chatbots or agent tooling.

- Background in shaping technical practices at an early-stage AI company.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 180,000 to 220,000 per year

- Equity

- Health, dental and vision coverage

- Retirement plan with matching

- Unlimited paid time off

- Professional development support

Location and work model

- New York, NY, United States

- On-site, 4 days per week in the office

- Full-time