HOME Software Engineering & Dev Senior Software Engineer
  • Raydar
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • Full-Time
  • 35 days ago
  • $215,000–$280,000 / year
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Senior Software Engineer.

Software Engineering & Dev Full-Time

Senior Software Engineer: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role:This is a senior software engineering role for an experienced product builder at a fast-growing software company developing applications that use language models.
  • The Person:The person will lead projects from design through release, build application features powered by language models, assess their output, and help shape product decisions, team practices, and the codebase’s technical direction.
  • Requirements:The ideal candidate has 4 to 8 years of software engineering experience, has delivered products end to end, and has worked across client-side and server-side code, databases, and large language model features.

About the role

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own engineering projects from initial design through delivery on a small team, working across the whole application. Contribute to product decisions, talk directly with users, and build features that use language models.

What you'll do

- Lead projects from design document to shipped release, covering user interface, services and data storage.

- Take part in product and design conversations and speak directly with users about what is being built.

- Build and refine application features powered by large language models, and assess the quality of their output.

- Use AI-assisted coding tools in everyday development.

- Work closely with fellow engineers, product leadership and a designer in an environment with few meetings.

- Influence team working practices and the technical direction of the codebase as the organization expands.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- 4 to 8 years of software engineering experience.

- A history of delivering products from start to finish at a startup or a technology company of any size.

- Prior experience as a founder or as an early engineer at a startup.

- A degree in computer science or a related field.

- Comfort working on both client-side and server-side code plus databases, using a current programming language.

- Good product and design instincts, including writing design documents, weighing product tradeoffs and thinking about user experience.

- Hands-on experience shipping product features built on large language models.

- Clear communication and a strong drive to deliver quickly.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 215,000 to 280,000 per year

- Equity

Location and work model

- Los Angeles, CA, United States

- On-site, 4-5 days per week in office

- Full-time

Published September 30, 2026
Location Los Angeles, CA
Job Type Full-Time