- Raydar
- San Francisco, CA
- Full-Time
- <72 Hours
- $240,000–$295,000
Staff Software Engineer.
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Staff Software Engineer: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for an experienced software engineer providing senior technical leadership in a healthcare technology company.
- The Person:The person will guide engineering teams, design and build production services, lead initiatives through release, strengthen shared infrastructure, and develop colleagues through code and design reviews.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience, backend-leaning experience with Python and TypeScript, modern web front-end tooling, and a bachelor's degree in computer science or another technical field.
About the role
About the company
Our client is a healthcare technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as a senior technical authority for multiple groups of engineers, dividing attention between system design and writing production code. The position carries full responsibility for large, multi-person initiatives from planning through release, helps shape direction alongside engineering managers, and grows the people around it.
What you'll do
- Provide technical direction to multiple groups, alternating between design work and writing code.
- Take full accountability for complex, multi-person projects, from defining scope and timelines through to delivered results.
- Partner with engineering managers to set technical direction for the most important initiatives.
- Build production-grade, backend-leaning services in Python and TypeScript with modern web frameworks.
- Own infrastructure projects from first design through release, strengthening the shared core services the product depends on.
- Develop colleagues across the company and define what good craftsmanship looks like in code and design reviews.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 7+ years of full-stack software engineering experience.
- Current or prior title of Staff, Principal or Lead Engineer, or a technical engineering manager willing to return to hands-on individual contributor work.
- Experience building complex software products at a large technology company or a fast-growing startup, ideally both.
- Backend-leaning full-stack experience across Python and TypeScript, plus modern web front-end tooling.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or another technical field.
- A proven record of solving complex architecture and coding problems.
- Authorization to work and the ability to start immediately.
Bonus points
- Experience with data platform or core infrastructure.
- Experience in the AI agent space, excluding pure AI/ML research.
- A mix of big technology company and startup backgrounds.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: $240K - $295K
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement plan
- Flexible time off
- Commuter benefits
- Professional development support
Location and work model
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Hybrid, with 4 in-office days per week
- Full-time