- Raydar
- San Francisco, CA
- Full-Time
- 23 days ago
- $225,000–$275,000 / year
Senior Backend Software Engineer.
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Senior Backend Software Engineer: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This is a senior backend engineering position on a software platform team working alongside applied generative AI researchers, engineers and designers.
- The Person:The person will build backend services and AI workflow infrastructure, shape system architecture, improve reliability through testing and monitoring, deliver features and APIs, and set engineering standards.
- Requirements:Candidates need 5 to 10 years of backend engineering experience, algorithms, data structures and system design fundamentals, professional TypeScript and AWS use, and experience building large language model or generative AI applications.
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. Act as a senior technical lead for backend engineering on a small team, shaping architecture and engineering standards. The work pairs server-side engineering with applied generative AI, in close partnership with researchers, engineers and designers.
What you'll do
- Design and build backend services that form the core of a software platform.
- Create infrastructure for AI-driven workflows, media generation pipelines and live data handling.
- Take ownership of system architecture across many services, and strengthen reliability with automated tests, performance measurement and monitoring.
- Collaborate with researchers, engineers and designers to deliver new features and APIs.
- Define coding guidelines and mentor others by example to lift overall engineering quality.
- Document your work clearly and explain technical choices to colleagues working side by side in an office.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 5 to 10 years of backend engineering experience, with solid fundamentals in algorithms, data structures and system design.
- A track record of building backend systems that scale, including work with large data volumes, search and retrieval, and background job processing.
- Hands-on professional use of TypeScript and AWS.
- At least 12 months of professional experience building applications on large language models or generative AI, including autonomous agent-style systems.
- Time spent in a startup setting, either early-stage or rapidly growing.
- A formal university degree.
- Fluent English in reading, writing and speaking.
- Ability to work in the office five days a week in San Francisco, as a local resident or able to start immediately.
Bonus points
- Previous experience as a technical lead, setting direction and code standards for a team.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 225,000 to 275,000 per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week
- Full-time