The role, as published
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.
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
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Unlimited paid time off
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, 4 days per week in the office
- Full-time
Compensation, as the posting describes it
- Equity
- Retirement plan with matching
- Professional development support