Raydar
Engineering Team Lead
$240K–$260K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
About the job
Lead and grow an engineering team while remaining hands-on, setting technical direction and delivering a performance-sensitive distributed system.
What you'll do
- Lead the team, review code, mentor engineers, and establish engineering processes.
- Make architectural decisions and own execution of the engineering roadmap with senior leadership.
- Contribute to the codebase for roughly a quarter of the time, improve productivity and observability, and hire engineers.
What they ask for
- Experience as a staff engineer or team lead guiding architectural and technical decisions.
- Prior experience managing several engineers at a fast-growing startup.
- Track record shipping demanding systems where performance and dependability mattered; depth in cloud engineering and distributed systems.
- Backend development experience with Python and Postgres; willingness to work on-site four days a week.
Nice to have
- Background in a company building AI-driven conversational products.
Pay
USD 240,000 to 260,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, Postgres
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