Founding Engineer

About the company

Our client is an insurance company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Build and refine AI-driven software in a small engineering group, owning features across the stack from data models to user-facing interfaces. The work centers on automating internal analytical and operational workflows, with a focus on reliability and careful evaluation of AI behavior. The role also shapes the team's engineering practices and system design as the group grows.

What you'll do

- Build and iterate on AI-driven software that automates internal analytical and operational workflows.

- Take full-stack features from design through production across Python and TypeScript.

- Partner with non-engineering colleagues to build tools that expand their capacity and output.

- Create evaluation frameworks, safety checks and reliability tooling for AI systems where errors carry real consequences.

- Help define engineering culture and architecture as part of an early, growing engineering team.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- 2 to 8 years of software engineering experience.

- Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.

- Experience with AI engineering, such as agents, evaluations, LLM APIs or fine-tuning, or a strong interest in it.

- Full-stack or backend-focused background, with no pure frontend-only profiles considered.

- Experience owning and shipping a full-stack product end-to-end, from idea to production.

- Experience at a leading product company or venture-backed startup at staff or tech-lead scope, or having founded a company.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field from a top-25 university.

- A humble, service-oriented attitude and a collaborative approach with colleagues outside engineering.

Bonus points

- Experience in healthcare or insurance technology.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: $175K - $300K

- Equity

Location and work model

- San Francisco, CA, United States or New York, NY, United States

- On-site, 5 days in-office

- Full-time