Raydar
Senior Software Engineer
$180K–$220K
New York, New York · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- At least 3 years of hands-on production backend experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree, ideally in computer science.
About the job
Build and evolve backend and full-stack capabilities for an automated processing platform, taking features from conception through release while improving data design and reliability.
What you'll do
- Improve platform infrastructure, dependability, orchestration and speed; maintain the system that organizes and deduplicates generated findings.
- Design and tune databases, and deliver features including analytics functionality and tooling for automated agents.
- Collaborate across teams, establish engineering conventions, and mentor colleagues in backend and data design practices.
What they ask for
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience building and running backend services in production.
- Ability to contribute to both front-end and back-end code.
- Strong schema design skills and deep working knowledge of PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with APIs and database systems; history of independently delivering significant projects end to end.
Nice to have
- Experience creating user-facing features powered by large language models, such as chatbots or agent tooling.
- Experience shaping technical practices at an early-stage AI company.
Pay
USD 180,000 to 220,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
PostgreSQL
AI focus
Work with AI colleagues and develop tooling for automated agents; experience with LLM-powered user features is preferred.
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