Senior Software Engineer

About the company

Our client is a software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join a small, senior engineering group as a generalist focused on backend and data work. You will build data processing pipelines, keep large-scale data collection dependable, and expose core services to other systems, working as an individual contributor.

What you'll do

- Build pipelines that enrich documents with derived metadata and relationships between records.

- Create systems that keep a large fleet of web scrapers reliable and accurate.

- Optimize and evaluate core utilities for parsing and resolving references in text.

- Expose core data services through APIs and other programmatic interfaces.

- Benchmark and evaluate key tasks using both human and synthetic methods.

- Stand up projects end-to-end on your preferred infrastructure, favoring simple solutions to complex problems.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- Strong engineering fundamentals, with ownership valued over loyalty to any one stack.

- At least 2 years of hands-on engineering in a small, fast-moving company, or several years in an organization with a demanding engineering culture.

- Willingness to work in a pure individual contributor role.

- Demonstrated interest or experience with statistics, machine learning or AI.

- Fluency with modern AI tooling and a practical, balanced view of it.

- A track record of taking real responsibility for outcomes, such as launching new work from scratch or joining a company at an early stage.

- Technical generalist breadth across the backend and comfort working with data pipelines.

Bonus points

- Proficiency in Python and SQL.

- Basic to intermediate infrastructure and devops experience.

- Full-stack experience.

- Side projects, an active GitHub or work examples that stand out.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 170,000 to 240,000 per year

- Equity

- Health, dental and vision coverage

- Retirement plan

Location and work model

- New York, New York, United States

- On-site

- Full-time