Backend Software Engineer
- Salary
- $150,000 - $230,000 per year
- Level
- Mid
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 23 October 2026.
About the role
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Build and own backend infrastructure for automated software agents, including the tooling that measures their quality and keeps them dependable in production. Work alongside field-facing engineers to turn repeated deployment issues into shared platform features.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain core infrastructure for agents that automate browser and desktop tasks, including tool use, state handling and retry behavior.
- Create measurement and monitoring systems that show how well agents perform, explain their decisions and flag quality regressions.
- Experiment with and ship better approaches to how agents plan, act, retain context, check their work and recover from errors.
- Own backend services and long-running workflow orchestration, including APIs, background jobs and event-driven systems in a TypeScript monorepo.
- Collaborate with customer-facing engineers to convert recurring field problems into shared platform features and internal tooling.
- Design clean abstractions and reusable building blocks that let agents operate safely across many different external systems.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, with deep TypeScript backend and production infrastructure expertise.
- Strong command of at least one statically typed language.
- Solid grounding in API design, relational databases and ORMs.
- A history of building dependable, scalable platforms while moving quickly.
- Experience at a company with a high technical bar, or early-stage 0-to-1 or founder experience.
- A computer science degree is preferred; other backgrounds considered with 4+ years at a company with a high technical bar.
- Daily use of AI-assisted coding tools in your workflow.
Bonus points
- Experience embedded with customers as an engineer, or shipping products built on large language models.
- Background in regulated or compliance-heavy settings.
- Experience with document processing, retrieval, data extraction or multimodal AI.
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools, browser automation frameworks, or cloud infrastructure and containers.
- Experience with Postgres and a TypeScript ORM.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 150,000 to 230,000 per year
- Equity
- Relocation support
Location and work model
- New York City, NY, United States
- On-site
- Full-time
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
PostgreSQL
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Other openings for this role
5 open postings for this role in New York, first posted 23 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.
- 23 October 2026 – open
- 23 October 2026 – open (this posting)
- 23 October 2026 – open
- 23 October 2026 – open
- 23 October 2026 – open
Salary context
21 other open postings titled Backend Software Engineer state a salary: median USD 165,000 to USD 230,000 a year.
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