Raydar
Founding Software Engineer
$140K–$220K
New York, New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- Roughly 1 to 5 years; promising early-career engineers are welcome, and experienced seniors are considered at higher compensation.
About the job
Build and lead backend, automation, integration, and cross-platform mobile systems for an education technology product, working closely with the CTO, founders, customers, and users.
What you'll do
- Build reliable automation and integrations with older third-party platforms, keeping data in sync.
- Develop and harden a cross-platform iOS and Android app; design scalable systems, infrastructure, and databases.
- Work directly with customers, improve the product from their feedback, and lead product areas and roadmaps.
What they ask for
- Track record taking software from idea to production and owning entire systems.
- Strong backend architecture and system design skills, including experience with messy, multi-source data.
- Reliability mindset covering uptime, monitoring, and graceful failure; ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly.
- Clear communication and spoken English for daily customer calls; willingness to work at startup pace, meet seasonal deadlines, and travel to customer sites.
Nice to have
- SRE or infrastructure experience; K-12 education technology or student information systems background.
- Familiarity with iOS and Android system-level APIs, browser or agent-based automation, or polished UX.
Pay
USD 140,000 to 220,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
iOS, Android
AI focus
The role may involve agent-based automation as a preferred background; no specific AI work is described.
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