About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take ownership of architecture and delivery for important backend services, raising the bar for engineering quality across the team. Use AI coding assistants day to day while checking their output as carefully as a colleague's, and coach fellow engineers while working alongside product and other departments.
What you'll do
- Lead the design and build of major features and long-running engineering initiatives.
- Write design proposals for sizeable projects and explain the business reasoning behind technical changes.
- Keep services fast, dependable and able to grow, with those goals built in from the earliest stage.
- Weigh how technical changes affect the business and guide teams in handling the fallout.
- Give tasks to AI coding agents, then carefully check and validate what they produce.
- Coach other engineers and contribute to the team's technical roadmap.
- Collaborate with product managers and other departments so engineering effort supports company priorities.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Experience at a growth-stage company, ideally one that is well established or an earlier-stage one with solid enterprise adoption.
- A track record of building transaction-heavy backend systems that handle large volumes of data.
- Hands-on knowledge of distributed systems and message brokers such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Expert command of Node.js and TypeScript.
- Past ownership of a significant product area's technical design from start to finish.
- Practical experience shipping production code with the help of AI coding tools.
- Clear communication and a product-oriented mindset.
- Eligibility to work remotely from the US or Canada, with Pacific time hours preferred.
Bonus points
- Background in building user login and access control features.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 190,000 to 225,000 per year
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Unlimited paid time off
Location and work model
- Remote (US or Canada)
- Full-time
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