- Raydar
- San Francisco, CA
- Full-Time
- 34 days ago
- $217,000–$410,000 / year
Staff Software Engineer.
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Staff Software Engineer: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This is a staff-level software engineering role for an experienced engineer shaping technical direction across a major software platform domain.
- The Person:The person will guide system design and technical strategy, lead difficult engineering decisions, establish shared engineering practices, and align technical choices with business priorities.
- Requirements:The ideal candidate has 8+ years of software engineering experience, experience with high-traffic scalable backend systems and distributed architectures, database expertise or LLM application experience, and Python or Ruby on Rails experience.
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. Serve as a senior technical leader who guides design decisions and engineering direction for a major part of a software platform. Take on the toughest technical challenges, collaborate with leaders across engineering and product, and help lift the quality bar across several teams.
What you'll do
- Guide system design and long-term technical strategy for a major platform domain, covering either data-heavy backend infrastructure or AI-driven product work.
- Take the lead on the most difficult engineering challenges, weighing build, buy and cost options that affect the wider organization.
- Define shared conventions and best practices that help multiple teams deliver better work and help other engineers be more effective.
- Work with product and engineering executives so that technical choices support business priorities.
- Apply modern AI coding assistants routinely when designing, debugging and delivering solutions.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a record of steadily growing scope and responsibility.
- Hands-on history running high-traffic, scalable backend systems in production.
- Startup or early-stage experience; candidates from large technology companies should have worked at least once in a startup.
- Strong system design skills for data-intensive and distributed architectures.
- Deep database expertise or experience building applications on large language models.
- Working experience with Python or Ruby on Rails.
- Practical experience using AI coding assistants in daily development.
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to be in the office 3 days per week.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 217,000 to 410,000 per year
- Equity
- Performance bonus
- Flexible hybrid work
- Professional development support
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Hybrid, 3 days per week in office
- Full-time