Raydar
Founding Software Engineer
$160K–$200K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 3 to 7 years of software engineering experience; ideally at a fast-moving startup or high-growth company.
About the job
Join as the first engineer, shaping product and technical direction while building full-stack production systems, AI features, and customer-driven software.
What you'll do
- Build measurement, attribution, automation, and data retrieval systems, and improve workflow reliability.
- Develop AI agents, integration servers, and product features across frontend and backend.
- Work with customers to ship features and help set product priorities, architecture, and engineering culture.
What they ask for
- Strong full-stack skills in TypeScript and Node.js, with ability to ship independently.
- Experience building AI agents or agent-based systems, including production use of LLM APIs.
- High agency, resilience amid shifting priorities, and ability to prioritize without close management.
- Willingness to work in person.
Nice to have
- Experience with Postgres, Redis, queues, or asynchronous job systems.
- Background in browser automation, scraping, retrieval infrastructure, agent orchestration and evaluation, developer tools, workflow products, ecommerce, search, attribution, or analytics.
Pay
USD 160,000 to 200,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Redis
AI focus
Develop AI agents, agent-based systems, integration servers, and product surfaces; use LLM APIs in production and potentially work on agent context management, orchestration, and evaluation.
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