Senior Backend Software Engineer

The Role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead backend and infrastructure work for a high-traffic consumer web platform, keeping services dependable and quick while building the systems behind new features. You will diagnose issues from the user-facing symptom to the root cause and own technical decisions on a very small team.

What You'll Do

Build the infrastructure that supports new product features, including recommendation, model training and serving pipelines.

Own production reliability through monitoring, logging, incident response and fixes that remove root causes.

Tune the speed and fault tolerance of the API layer, data access, caching, asynchronous processing and live connections.

Keep strengthening the existing stack, including protection against automated abuse.

Make architecture and capacity decisions as usage grows, and shape how the team deploys, observes and recovers services.

What We're Looking For

At least 4 years of software engineering experience, with a meaningful share spent on backend or infrastructure systems.

Experience running significant backend systems in production, beyond writing the code.

Strong skills in TypeScript/Node.js and PostgreSQL.

Versatile enough to debug across multiple layers of a system, even in areas that are new to you.

Comfort taking an ambiguous problem to a production fix with little direction on a small, high-ownership team.

Able to work on-site 5 days a week.

Bonus Points

Experience with NestJS, Redis or Kubernetes.

Background in distributed systems or GPU infrastructure.

Benefits

Health, dental and vision coverage.

Location and Work Model

San Francisco, CA, United States

On-site, 5 days a week in office

Full-time

Compensation, As The Posting Describes It

Retirement plan with employer match.