Raydar
Senior Backend Software Engineer
$220K–$280K
San Francisco, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- At least 4 years.
About the job
Owns and delivers backend services for a software platform, from design through production, while guiding technical direction and collaborating across teams.
What you'll do
- Build and release backend services, including data handling, interfaces, asynchronous jobs, and release setup.
- Design reliable processing workflows and apply access control and data protection practices.
- Set technical direction and roadmap, write automated tests, and turn product goals into engineering plans.
What they ask for
- At least 4 years building and releasing robust production backend systems, with clear architecture ownership.
- Record of creating foundational services used by engineers in live environments.
- Experience shipping production features and troubleshooting them at scale.
- Ability to work on-site in the office 4 days each week.
Nice to have
- Experience across established larger organizations and fast-paced startups, or as a founder or early engineer.
- Computer science or similarly technical degree; experience coaching junior engineers is also valued.
Pay
USD 220,000 to 280,000 per year (base salary)
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