Senior Full Stack Engineer

About the company

Our client is a software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead the delivery of a security-hardened deployment of an existing software platform inside a restricted public-sector cloud. The work is mostly backend engineering with some frontend, and involves close collaboration with machine learning and platform colleagues.

What you'll do

- Re-create an existing application stack in a locked-down government cloud, prioritizing security, stability and reliability.

- Design and implement data separation so each user can only view information appropriate to their authorization level.

- Keep backend services dependable and expand infrastructure capacity as more users join.

- Work alongside a machine learning engineer to migrate retrieval-based AI pipelines, benchmark models and bring down running costs.

- Stay aligned with the wider platform engineers so new capabilities reach the government deployment.

- Split your time roughly 70% backend and 30% frontend.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.

- At least 1 year of hands-on work with systems hosted in a highly regulated defense or federal cloud environment.

- Strong skills in React and Python, with a backend-leaning focus.

- At least 1 year in a startup setting; a mix of large technology company and startup experience is fine.

- Practical experience with AI services on a major cloud provider.

- Background in machine learning, retrieval pipelines and large language models, ideally at significant organizational scale.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related STEM field.

- Comfort leading client conversations and explaining technical ideas plainly to non-technical audiences.

- Ability to work on-site five days a week.

Bonus points

- Familiarity with federal security and compliance frameworks and the authorization process for government systems.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 180,000 to 250,000 per year

- Equity

Location and work model

- Los Altos, CA, United States

- On-site, 5 days per week in office

- Occasional travel to Washington, D.C.

- Full-time