Principal 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. Act as the top individual-contributor engineer, responsible for the design, engineering standards and delivery of a major area of a software platform. The work blends hands-on development with technical mentorship and regular collaboration with executives and product counterparts.

What you'll do

• Take full accountability for a major technical area, covering its design, quality expectations and results.
• Design and write production code alongside your teammates to set the engineering bar by example.
• Join recurring leadership discussions and work with a product partner as a peer to achieve business goals.
• Coach and support engineers and team leads, strengthening their skills while remaining a hands-on contributor.
• Review and ship work while safeguarding quality and pace across multiple engineering groups.
• Encourage AI-first habits by building on current AI models and bringing consistency to the AI-assisted development tools the teams use.
• Contribute to a range of platform areas, such as runtime services, intelligent agents, integrations and data infrastructure.

What we're looking for

• A decade or more of engineering experience delivering critical systems that run in production at significant scale.
• Solid skills in software design, reviewing technical architecture and writing code yourself.
• A record of launching new products from the ground up and carrying responsibility for an entire area of the system.
• Daily, in-depth use of current AI-assisted development tools.
• At least 2 years of recent experience at a growth-stage startup; a background at a large technology company is also welcome.
• Sound engineering fundamentals, ideally with Node.js and Python.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related STEM field.
• Ability to work on-site 5 days a week.

Bonus points

• Experience as a technical founder or founding engineer.
• Familiarity with conversational or voice AI, or with financial services technology.
• Articles, conference presentations or open-source contributions related to AI or platform engineering.

Benefits

• Health, dental and vision coverage
• Paid parental leave
• Mental health and wellness benefits
• Family benefits

Location and work model

• San Francisco, CA, United States
• On-site, 5 days per week in office
• Full-time

Compensation, as the posting describes it

• Equity
• Retirement plan
• Flexible time off