Senior Software Engineer

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take ownership of backend capabilities for a data-heavy software platform, covering storage design, data flow, services and monitoring. Collaborate with product, design and customer-facing colleagues to ship features, and lead the move of LLM-driven automation from experiment to production.

What you'll do

- Architect the schemas, ingestion layers and processing flows that keep a large-scale platform running.

- Take full responsibility for backend features from initial design through APIs, infrastructure and monitoring.

- Partner with product and engineering colleagues to translate user needs into both conventional and AI-driven features.

- Create internal admin tooling that helps operate and manage the platform behind the scenes.

- Guide LLM-powered automation from early research and model comparison through to a production release.

- Assess and bring in new AI and developer tools that raise team velocity, code quality and maintainability.

- Offer technical assistance to sales and customer success teammates as needed.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.

- Hands-on background in designing scalable data storage, processing pipelines and system integrations, using Postgres.

- Prior work at a company where AI was central, or experience releasing AI-powered products.

- Solid backend engineering fundamentals.

- A bachelor's degree.

- A record of driving projects to completion with little supervision on a small, self-directed team.

- US work authorization without sponsorship.

- Ability to work from the office at least 4 days per week.

Bonus points

- Familiarity with building LLM-based automation and conversational tools.

- Proficiency in Python.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 180,000 to 200,000 per year

- Equity

Location and work model

- New York, NY, United States

- On-site, at least 4 days per week in the office

- Full-time