Senior Developer Experience Engineer

About the company Our client is a technology company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Improve the shared engineering systems, build workflows and in-house utilities that a large group of engineers depends on daily. Serve as a senior technical leader who mentors colleagues, sets team standards, and helps others move faster and ship with confidence. What you'll do - Refine how code travels from a developer's machine to production, streamlining the setup engineers use every day across the whole company. - Work alongside colleagues from several adjacent groups to pinpoint slowdowns and deliver the most valuable fixes. - Assess AI-assisted coding tools, choose which to adopt, add safeguards and measure their real effect on productivity. - Set developer experience standards, documentation and operational runbooks that keep pace with company growth. - Lead as a senior technical voice, mentoring future hires and proposing improvements rather than only following a set plan. Requirements What we're looking for - Senior-level engineering experience, comfortable acting as a tech lead and mentor. - Multi-year experience at a high-growth startup during periods of rapid scaling. - Track record creating shared systems and utilities that internal engineers depend on. - Strong security awareness, particularly around build pipelines and backend systems. - Fluency in a modern backend programming language. - Hands-on background engineering server-side foundations that keep working as load and codebase size grow. - Experience collaborating across several engineering teams. Bonus points - Experience using Protocol Buffers. Benefits Compensation and benefits - Base salary: USD 225,000 to 275,000 per year - Equity - Retirement plan with employer match - Health, dental and vision coverage - Paid parental leave - Flexible time off - Relocation support Location and work model - New York, NY, United States, or Washington, DC, United States - Hybrid, with 3 days in office per week - Full-time