Senior Backend 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. Act as a senior technical lead for backend engineering on a small team, shaping architecture and engineering standards. The work pairs server-side engineering with applied generative AI, in close partnership with researchers, engineers and designers.

What you'll do

- Design and build backend services that form the core of a software platform.

- Create infrastructure for AI-driven workflows, media generation pipelines and live data handling.

- Take ownership of system architecture across many services, and strengthen reliability with automated tests, performance measurement and monitoring.

- Collaborate with researchers, engineers and designers to deliver new features and APIs.

- Define coding guidelines and mentor others by example to lift overall engineering quality.

- Document your work clearly and explain technical choices to colleagues working side by side in an office.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- 5 to 10 years of backend engineering experience, with solid fundamentals in algorithms, data structures and system design.

- A track record of building backend systems that scale, including work with large data volumes, search and retrieval, and background job processing.

- Hands-on professional use of TypeScript and AWS.

- At least 12 months of professional experience building applications on large language models or generative AI, including autonomous agent-style systems.

- Time spent in a startup setting, either early-stage or rapidly growing.

- A formal university degree.

- Fluent English in reading, writing and speaking.

- Ability to work in the office five days a week in San Francisco, as a local resident or able to start immediately.

Bonus points

- Previous experience as a technical lead, setting direction and code standards for a team.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 225,000 to 275,000 per year

- Equity

- Health, dental and vision coverage

Location and work model

- San Francisco, CA, United States

- On-site, 5 days per week

- Full-time