Staff Software Engineer

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