Software Engineer

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own projects from concept to launch as a full-stack engineer, building backend services, web interfaces and internal tooling in a fast-moving environment. The work spans prototyping, deployment and reliability improvements, with regular collaboration across functions and with external technical stakeholders.

What you'll do

- Design and build scalable systems, including APIs, simulation environments and internal platforms that involve human review.

- Partner with research, product and design colleagues to deliver features quickly.

- Produce readable, well-structured code and keep supporting technical notes up to date.

- Take part in code reviews and design discussions.

- Tackle real-world scalability and reliability problems.

- Contribute to core infrastructure supporting data and evaluation workflows.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- Full-stack capability with React, Node.js or Python, and container orchestration with Kubernetes.

- Track record of building something end to end with a strong sense of ownership.

- Experience at a high-growth startup, a respected trading firm, or as a founding engineer at a well-resourced startup.

- For candidates with a big tech background only, a computer science degree from a leading program.

- A degree from a highly ranked university in the US, Canada or Europe.

- Comfort working directly with external researchers as a client-facing technical partner.

- Willingness to work on-site five days a week, with flexible hours.

Bonus points

- Experience with Kafka, Redis or Elasticsearch.

- Background at a company in the human data or AI data space.

- For early-career candidates, multiple internships at top-tier technology companies.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 260,000 to 290,000 per year

- Equity

Location and work model

- San Francisco, CA, United States

- On-site, 5 days a week

- Full-time