Raydar
Founding Software Engineer
$160K–$180K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- 1 to 4 years, or an exceptional recent graduate.
About the job
Own end-to-end software feature delivery, with a backend emphasis, while working directly with business customers and helping shape product direction and engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Build and ship features across frontend, backend, data infrastructure, and cloud deployment; take them from customer discussions through release and iteration.
- Develop dependable workflows, testing and evaluation tools, safeguards, and data pipelines; design schemas for large, complex datasets.
- Serve as the technical contact for a business customer, support pilot adoption, and contribute to the product roadmap and engineering practices.
What they ask for
- Full-stack ability with a backend lean, including independently turning specifications into near-production software.
- Fluency in Python or TypeScript, plus experience with a relational database such as Postgres.
- Solid computer science foundation in data storage, system design, and large-scale service architecture; experience deploying applications to a major cloud platform.
- Strong accountability, customer communication, initiative, and a polished user-interface sensibility.
Nice to have
- Background in competitive programming, olympiads, or quantitative trading.
- Prior experience as a startup founder.
Pay
USD 160,000 to 180,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, TypeScript, Postgres
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