Founding Software Engineer
Raydar
Founding Software Engineer
Raydar
AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles
Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-29
Salary: USD 150,000–250,000
Workplace: on_site
About the company
Our client is a fintech company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Build backend systems and data-heavy services for a regulated financial platform, taking initiatives from early planning through to launch while helping set the technical direction of a small engineering team.
What you'll do
- Design and build automated workflows for regulated financial operations, including transaction monitoring, compliance checks and document handling.
- Build and extend an accounting ledger that tracks income and principal, with correctness enforced in the database and API layers.
- Create evaluation tooling and test pipelines for AI-assisted features, including repeatable checks in CI/CD.
- Partner with operations leads and founders to learn user pain points and convert them into requirements and a prioritized backlog.
- Build integrations with payment providers, compliance vendors and financial institutions, weighing build-versus-buy decisions on correctness and security.
- Design security-focused infrastructure covering authentication, encryption of sensitive data, audit logging and observability.
- Contribute to frontend work that makes complex legal and financial structures easier to understand.
- Own initiatives end to end, from early planning through release, and help define the long-term technical foundations of the company.
What we're looking for
- 3 or more years building production systems, mainly on the backend.
- Prior experience launching new systems from scratch at a small, early-stage technology company, ideally in an early engineering, founding or lead capacity.
- Comfort owning several areas at once with little structure, including defining requirements without being told what to do.
- Daily use of AI coding tools in your development work.
- Ability to work on-site five days a week.
- Strong production relational database skills, including schema design, constraints and migrations.
Bonus points
- Hands-on experience with LLM workflows, such as agent harnesses, evaluation loops or agent tooling.
- A strong security mindset.
- Deep PostgreSQL or DevOps experience.
- Background in fintech or another regulated industry.
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 150,000 to 250,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, 5 days a week
- Full-time
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Raydar is an AI-powered talent acquisition firm that serves tech-focused organizations on a contingency basis, charging client companies only after a successful hire. It uses proprietary AI to identify a large pool of candidates and conducts a short 15-minute AI-driven interview (recorded and transcribed) before human recruiters review materials, provide interview prep, and assist with offers and negotiations. What sets it apart is the blend of automated sourcing and screening with hands-on human oversight and tailored client support. Its goal is to help organizations hire more efficiently by speeding up sourcing while maintaining thorough evaluation and negotiation assistance.
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