Senior Software Engineer

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.

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.

Location And Work Model

San Francisco, CA, United States

Hybrid, 3 days per week in office

Full-time

Compensation, As The Posting Describes It

Equity

Performance bonus

Professional development support