Senior 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. Serve as a senior engineer on a compact product engineering group, covering backend and full-stack work. You will take features from idea to release, shape data design and platform dependability, and guide engineering practices alongside colleagues in product, design and sales. What you'll do - Evolve the infrastructure behind a large-scale automated processing platform, with attention to dependability, orchestration and speed. - Own a system that organizes and removes duplicates from generated findings so they stay useful over time. - Collaborate with product, design, AI, front-end and sales colleagues to understand customer needs and translate them into new capabilities. - Guide database design and query performance across relational and analytical stores as usage and workloads increase. - Carry features from initial scoping through to live release, including analytics functionality and tooling for automated agents. - Establish and maintain team conventions for code quality, interface design and schema design to speed up delivery and reduce defects. - Lift the team's backend and data design practices through example and mentoring. Requirements What we're looking for - At least 3 years of hands-on experience running and building backend services in production. - Comfort contributing to both front-end and back-end code, without needing to be a front-end specialist. - Strong schema design skills and deep working knowledge of PostgreSQL. - Familiarity with APIs and database systems. - A history of independently taking significant projects from start to finish. - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup with minimal supervision. - A bachelor's degree, ideally in computer science. Bonus points - Experience creating user-facing features powered by large language models, such as chatbots or agent tooling. - Background in shaping technical practices at an early-stage AI company. Benefits Compensation and benefits - Base salary: USD 180,000 to 220,000 per year - Equity - Health, dental and vision coverage - Retirement plan with matching - Unlimited paid time off - Professional development support Location and work model - New York, NY, United States - On-site, 4 days per week in the office - Full-time