Raydar
Head of Engineering
$250K–$300K
New York, New York · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 19, 2026
- Experience
- 7 to 15 years of relevant software engineering experience.
- Education
- A technical degree.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa transfers are supported.
About the job
Lead and scale engineering while remaining hands-on, splitting time between production coding and team leadership, architecture, and technical direction.
What you'll do
- Build and grow the engineering team, and ship production code alongside it.
- Own AI strategy and production multi-agent systems, including evaluations and observability.
- Set architecture and platform direction, and contribute to product priorities and user-experience decisions.
What they ask for
- Recent early-stage startup experience and current ability to code in production.
- Experience building and leading an engineering team.
- Experience shipping production AI or ML with robust evaluations and observability.
- A technical degree, strong enterprise architecture, and product judgment.
Nice to have
- Fintech, identity, KYC/KYB, fraud, or risk experience.
- Experience in regulated or compliance-heavy software.
Pay
USD 250,000 to 300,000 per year (base salary)
AI focus
Own AI strategy and production multi-agent systems; build reliable evaluations and observability for AI capabilities.
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