About the company
Our client is an early-stage software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join as one of the first engineers and build backend-heavy, full-stack software while helping shape technical direction and engineering culture. This is a hands-on lead role that combines daily coding with mentoring a more junior engineer.
What you'll do
- Build the data foundations that record user activity and connect decisions to their results.
- Develop automated, AI-driven systems that evaluate performance, decide on changes and carry them out.
- Own full-stack delivery end to end, leaning toward backend and infrastructure work.
- Ship dependable connections to external third-party platforms, along with workflow orchestration tooling.
- Mentor a junior engineer while staying hands-on in the code every day.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 3+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience taking production systems built on large language models from design through launch and operation.
- Experience connecting LLM-driven applications to external services.
- Full-stack skills with a strong backend emphasis, including data pipelines and service integrations.
- Background at a high-growth technology company or a well-funded startup.
- Experience leading or mentoring one or two engineers, for example as a tech lead or founder.
- Early-stage or founding engineer experience building products from zero to one.
- Strong communication skills.
- Comfort juggling many priorities and creating structure in ambiguous situations.
Bonus points
- Familiarity with APIs from e-commerce or marketing technology providers.
- A degree from a top engineering program, which can count in place of a startup track record.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 175,000 to 225,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- Hybrid, 4 days per week in office
- Full-time
About Raydar
At Raydar we help innovative companies find the solutions they need to supercharge their growth. See website for full list of active open roles: www.raydar.xyz/open-roles
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