About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Act as a senior backend-focused engineer who takes responsibility for how important platform components are built and kept dependable. The job blends hands-on technical leadership, working with AI-assisted coding tools, coaching teammates and close collaboration with product partners.
What you'll do
- Drive the architecture and build-out of significant platform features from concept through release.
- Produce written design proposals for sizeable efforts and help weigh the business rationale for technical changes.
- Plan systems so they stay fast, scalable and dependable as demand grows.
- Evaluate how technical changes affect the business and coordinate with other groups to handle the effects.
- Use AI coding assistants to produce code, then verify the results with the same care applied to a colleague's pull request.
- Coach fellow engineers and contribute to the team's technical roadmap.
- Work with product and other functions to keep engineering effort aligned with business needs.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Experience at a growth-stage technology company, ideally a larger later-stage business or a smaller one with strong enterprise adoption.
- Track record of delivering production software with the help of AI coding tools.
- Expert-level skill in Node.js and TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems and message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- History of being the end-to-end technical owner for a significant product area or system.
- Clear, product-minded communication.
- Solid engineering fundamentals, sufficient to judge the quality and safety of machine-generated code.
- Eligibility to work remotely from the US or Canada, with Pacific time zone overlap preferred.
Bonus points
- Experience in SaaS.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 190,000 to 225,000 per year
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Flexible time off
Location and work model
- Remote (US or Canada)
- Full-time
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