Staff Software Engineer
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Key details
- Salary
- $250K–$320K/yr
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Work style
- Onsite
- Level
- Senior
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 3–6 yrs
- Function
- Software engineering
- Focus area
- AI / ML
- Posted
- 18h ago
Skills
About the role
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing financial technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the design and architecture of core backend systems for a real-time product, taking features from first design through to live production. Contribute across the entire product in a compact, office-based engineering team, with emphasis on speed and resilience.
What you'll do
- Design and own core backend systems for low-latency, real-time services.
- Drive performance and reliability improvements using event-driven designs and parallel processing.
- Collaborate with a small engineering group and company founders across infrastructure, backend and reliability work.
- Deploy, operate and scale fault-tolerant distributed systems on container orchestration.
- Take features from initial design through to live production, often within days.
- Help build and refine machine learning systems that improve from ongoing feedback.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Computer Science degree.
- Prior work building fast, time-sensitive backend or full-stack software.
- Strong database design and performance optimization skills.
- Solid grasp of how multi-node software stays available and recovers from failures.
- Hands-on history of carrying backend services from build through to running in production, with full accountability.
- Comfort owning design and architecture across an entire product.
- Familiarity with AI and large language models.
- Backend or full-stack experience rather than frontend work alone.
Bonus points
- Four or more years of experience.
- Background in creating or running machine learning models in live environments.
- Startup, founder or mid-size company experience, including after a large technology company.
- Python experience.
- A degree from a strong university computer science program.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 250K to 320K
- Equity
Location and work model
- San Francisco, California, United States
- On-site, 5 days a week
- Full-time