Staff Software Engineer

About the company Our client is a fast-growing software company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as a senior technical leader who guides design decisions and engineering direction for a major part of a software platform. Take on the toughest technical challenges, collaborate with leaders across engineering and product, and help lift the quality bar across several teams. What you'll do - Guide system design and long-term technical strategy for a major platform domain, covering either data-heavy backend infrastructure or AI-driven product work. - Take the lead on the most difficult engineering challenges, weighing build, buy and cost options that affect the wider organization. - Define shared conventions and best practices that help multiple teams deliver better work and help other engineers be more effective. - Work with product and engineering executives so that technical choices support business priorities. - Apply modern AI coding assistants routinely when designing, debugging and delivering solutions. Requirements What we're looking for - 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a record of steadily growing scope and responsibility. - Hands-on history running high-traffic, scalable backend systems in production. - Startup or early-stage experience; candidates from large technology companies should have worked at least once in a startup. - Strong system design skills for data-intensive and distributed architectures. - Deep database expertise or experience building applications on large language models. - Working experience with Python or Ruby on Rails. - Practical experience using AI coding assistants in daily development. - Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to be in the office 3 days per week. Benefits Compensation and benefits - Base salary: USD 217,000 to 410,000 per year - Equity - Performance bonus - Flexible hybrid work - Professional development support Location and work model - San Francisco, CA, United States - Hybrid, 3 days per week in office - Full-time