Staff Software Engineer

About the company Our client is a small healthcare technology company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as the senior hands-on technical lead on a small product engineering team, writing and reviewing code every day while guiding more junior engineers. The work covers building customer-facing features across the full stack, including LLM-powered functionality, and the role helps set engineering practices and architecture from an early stage. What you'll do - Take end-to-end ownership of AI-driven product features, from early design through release. - Lead and mentor a small group of junior engineers, setting standards for code review and engineering workflow. - Work alongside product, customer-facing staff and company leadership to scope what gets built next. - Design and deliver full-stack work spanning user interfaces, back-end services, infrastructure and data pipelines. Requirements What we're looking for - 8 or more years of software engineering experience. - Prior experience directing the technical work of a group of engineers, including steering major initiatives and organizing colleagues' efforts. - Product engineering background with hands-on delivery of customer-facing products built from the ground up, rather than deep infrastructure work. - Full-stack ability to own a feature end to end, with a backend lean acceptable. - Recent hands-on work bringing language-model-based functionality into live use over the past two years. - Ability to set best practices for code quality and review on a team new to them. - Works cross-functionally to understand user needs and help shape new products. Bonus points - Experience across both early-stage startups and larger engineering organizations. - Computer science degree or equivalent work experience. - Experience setting up AI evaluation or LLM observability tooling in production, and working with multi-step agentic pipelines. - Interest in life sciences or healthcare. Benefits Compensation and benefits - Base salary: USD 210,000 to 260,000 per year - Equity - Health insurance coverage - Retirement plan Location and work model - San Francisco, CA, United States - Hybrid, 3 days in-office per week - Full-time