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. Own the design and delivery of backend services and APIs at a senior level, collaborating with peers on integrations and cross-functional features. Keep core systems reliable and performant as usage grows, and help raise engineering standards across teams. What you'll do

• Scope, design and build resilient, high-performing backend services.
• Team up with other engineers to ship integrations and multi-part backend features.
• Maintain and improve existing integrations while planning ahead for future needs and growth.
• Diagnose and fix defects, performance bottlenecks and developer-experience pain points in the codebase.
• Push forward engineering practices and technical improvements.
• Create a shared internal API over company data and store large volumes of metrics gathered from external providers.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• At least six years of hands-on experience shipping and running production software at scale.
• Strong backend and third-party API experience, with willingness to work across the stack when needed.
• A record of taking products from zero to one, including AI features running in production.
• A career spent mostly at startups, with recent time at an AI-focused company.
• Experience with asynchronous message queue systems.
• Experience with MongoDB or a similar document database.
• Comfort with data modeling, ETL pipelines and streamlining how data is structured.
• If Node.js is not your main language, evidence of picking up new languages and stacks quickly in early-stage settings.
• Experience working directly with clients or non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to explain technical matters in business terms.
• Pragmatic problem solving and the ability to thrive amid shifting priorities.
• Interest in AI and machine learning.
• Based in North America or Western Europe.

Bonus points

• Deep backend experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience with event-driven or asynchronous systems.
• Founder or founding engineer experience.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: CAD 200,000 to 250,000 per year
• Equity
• Health coverage
• Paid time off
• Wellness and home office stipends Location and work model
• Remote (US or Canada)
• Full-time