- Raydar
- San Francisco, CA
- Full-Time
- 10 days ago
- $200,000–$350,000 / year
Backend Software Engineer.
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Backend Software Engineer: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for an experienced backend engineer supporting a growing consumer technology application.
- The Person:The person will strengthen backend services and integrations, design sensitive user data structures, build pipelines and real-time systems, and own projects from design through deployment and scaling.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has 4 to 6 years of backend engineering experience, fluency in a mainstream server-side programming language, and hands-on experience with SQL databases, caching layers, background job processing, and data platforms.
About the role
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing consumer technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Strengthen and scale backend services and data systems for a consumer application as usage grows. Take end-to-end ownership of real-time services and data pipelines, balancing performance with sensible infrastructure spending.
What you'll do
- Review and harden core backend services and third-party integrations so they handle much greater load.
- Design how sensitive user data is organized and structured.
- Build data pipelines that deliver user context to services and new product features.
- Build fast, efficient real-time systems for conversational features.
- Build data systems that support personalization and product experimentation.
- Own projects end to end, from design through deployment and scaling.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 4 to 6 years of backend engineering experience.
- Background at an early-stage startup or as a founding team member.
- A track record of shipping and running backend software in production.
- Fluency in at least one mainstream server-side programming language.
- Hands-on work with SQL databases, caching layers, background job processing and data platforms.
- Comfort designing service interfaces and scalable, distributed architectures.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Ability to work on-site five days a week in San Francisco.
Bonus points
- Background working on consumer-facing applications.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 350,000 per year
- Equity
- Free meals
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in office
- Full-time