Raydar
Backend Software Engineer
$201K–$240K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- Roughly 1 to 3 years building and releasing backend software in production, or a standout recent graduate with a strong project portfolio.
About the job
Builds and maintains backend services, APIs, data flows, and asynchronous processing for a software platform.
What you'll do
- Deliver backend features from design through release, including data handling, service interfaces, and asynchronous jobs.
- Build reliable processing pipelines and apply security practices such as restricted access, customer data separation, and audit trails.
- Turn loosely defined requests into technical plans with backend, product, and infrastructure peers.
What they ask for
- Strong grounding in services, APIs, data modeling, and infrastructure focused on reliability, monitoring, and performance.
- Hands-on experience delivering a substantial professional or personal project and understanding the move from prototype to dependable system.
- Ability to work in the office 4 days per week.
- Willingness to help across the stack while remaining backend-focused.
Nice to have
- Experience running and evaluating complex automated pipelines in production.
- Prior work alongside full-stack teams; awareness of enterprise-level security expectations; use of modern development tooling.
Pay
USD 201,000 to 240,000 per year (base salary)
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