Raydar
Founding Software Engineer
$175K–$300K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of engineering experience.
About the job
Own early-stage engineering problems from design through delivery, building backend and AI-driven systems and turning customer needs into shipped solutions.
What you'll do
- Build infrastructure for AI features, including data matching, retrieval-based search, pricing logic, and long-running automated tasks.
- Work with customers and large, messy datasets to automate document-heavy workflows.
- Own major technical problem areas and help establish engineering standards and team culture.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of engineering experience, strong computer science fundamentals, and a record of shipping high-impact work.
- Hands-on experience with Python or TypeScript.
- Comfort designing software across many services and handling substantial data volumes.
- Ability to work on-site five days a week.
Nice to have
- Earlier experience in a very early-stage or customer-embedded engineering role.
- Experience at well-regarded engineering organizations.
Pay
USD 175,000 to 300,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, TypeScript
AI focus
Build core infrastructure for AI-driven features, including data matching, retrieval-based search, pricing logic, scalable long-running automated tasks, and automation of document-heavy workflows.
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