Los Angeles, United States
Senior Software Engineer
Raydar · Los Angeles · United States
- Salary
- $215,000–$280,000 per year
- Contract
- Full time
- Occupation
- Software Engineer
Posted: 9/30/2026 · Last checked: 10/28/2026
Job description
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About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own engineering projects from initial design through delivery on a small team, working across the whole application. Contribute to product decisions, talk directly with users, and build features that use language models.
What you'll do
- Lead projects from design document to shipped release, covering user interface, services and data storage.
- Take part in product and design conversations and speak directly with users about what is being built.
- Build and refine application features powered by large language models, and assess the quality of their output.
- Use AI-assisted coding tools in everyday development.
- Work closely with fellow engineers, product leadership and a designer in an environment with few meetings.
- Influence team working practices and the technical direction of the codebase as the organization expands.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 4 to 8 years of software engineering experience.
- A history of delivering products from start to finish at a startup or a technology company of any size.
- Prior experience as a founder or as an early engineer at a startup.
- A degree in computer science or a related field.
- Comfort working on both client-side and server-side code plus databases, using a current programming language.
- Good product and design instincts, including writing design documents, weighing product tradeoffs and thinking about user experience.
- Hands-on experience shipping product features built on large language models.
- Clear communication and a strong drive to deliver quickly.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 215,000 to 280,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- On-site, 4-5 days per week in office
- Full-time
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