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Founding Software Engineer

Fast-growing software company

The Role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join as an early engineer owning product work from design through deployment. You will build across the frontend, backend and infrastructure, work directly with customers, and help shape the technical foundations of the platform. What You'll Do Design, build and ship product features end-to-end, from initial design to production deployment. Work across frontend, backend and cloud infrastructure on a daily basis. Build and coordinate automated AI-driven services that communicate over several channels, such as voice, text and email. Develop and train machine learning models that improve matching and decision-making. Integrate with older third-party systems that lack public APIs. Gather customer feedback and use it to guide priorities and iterate on the product. Lead projects with a high degree of ownership. What We're Looking For Background as a founder or founding engineer, or experience at a high-growth startup or a late-stage technology company. Strong full-stack skills and a record of shipping products end-to-end. Ability to work consistently across frontend, backend and infrastructure. Ability to lead projects from design through deployment and customer feedback. High ownership and real care for the user experience and what is being built. Undergraduate degree in computer science, electrical engineering and computer science, math or a similar field. Ability to write code without relying on AI tools. Bonus Points Interest in healthcare or life sciences technology. A track record in a very early technical role, whether as a company builder or one of the first hires at a young company. A public GitHub profile or side projects to share. Location And Work Model San Francisco, California, United States On-site, 6 days per week in the office Full-time Compensation, As The Posting Describes It Equity Fast-growing software company

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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