Staff 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. Serve as a senior technical leader who guides design decisions and engineering direction for a major part of a software platform. Take on the toughest technical challenges, collaborate with leaders across engineering and product, and help lift the quality bar across several teams.

What you'll do

- Guide system design and long-term technical strategy for a major platform domain, covering either data-heavy backend infrastructure or AI-driven product work.

- Take the lead on the most difficult engineering challenges, weighing build, buy and cost options that affect the wider organization.

- Define shared conventions and best practices that help multiple teams deliver better work and help other engineers be more effective.

- Work with product and engineering executives so that technical choices support business priorities.

- Apply modern AI coding assistants routinely when designing, debugging and delivering solutions.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a record of steadily growing scope and responsibility.

- Hands-on history running high-traffic, scalable backend systems in production.

- Startup or early-stage experience; candidates from large technology companies should have worked at least once in a startup.

- Strong system design skills for data-intensive and distributed architectures.

- Deep database expertise or experience building applications on large language models.

- Working experience with Python or Ruby on Rails.

- Practical experience using AI coding assistants in daily development.

- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to be in the office 3 days per week.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 217,000 to 410,000 per year

- Equity

- Performance bonus

- Flexible hybrid work

- Professional development support

Location and work model

- San Francisco, CA, United States

- Hybrid, 3 days per week in office

- Full-time