The role, as published
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own projects from concept to launch as a full-stack engineer, building backend services, web interfaces and internal tooling in a fast-moving environment. The work spans prototyping, deployment and reliability improvements, with regular collaboration across functions and with external technical stakeholders.
What you'll do
- Design and build scalable systems, including APIs, simulation environments and internal platforms that involve human review.
- Partner with research, product and design colleagues to deliver features quickly.
- Produce readable, well-structured code and keep supporting technical notes up to date.
- Take part in code reviews and design discussions.
- Tackle real-world scalability and reliability problems.
- Contribute to core infrastructure supporting data and evaluation workflows.
What we're looking for
- Full-stack capability with React, Node.js or Python, and container orchestration with Kubernetes.
- Track record of building something end to end with a strong sense of ownership.
- Experience at a high-growth startup, a respected trading firm, or as a founding engineer at a well-resourced startup.
- For candidates with a big tech background only, a computer science degree from a leading program.
- A degree from a highly ranked university in the US, Canada or Europe.
- Comfort working directly with external researchers as a client-facing technical partner.
- Willingness to work on-site five days a week, with flexible hours.
Bonus points
- Experience with Kafka, Redis or Elasticsearch.
- Background at a company in the human data or AI data space.
- For early-career candidates, multiple internships at top-tier technology companies.
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site, 5 days a week
- Full-time
Compensation, as the posting describes it
- Equity