Engineering Team Lead
Raydar
Engineering Team Lead
Raydar
AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles
Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-30
Salary: USD 240,000–260,000
Workplace: on_site
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead a small engineering group while staying hands-on in the codebase, owning technical direction, team processes and delivery. The role blends architecture decisions for a performance-sensitive distributed system with mentoring, prioritization and hiring as the team grows.
What you'll do
- Lead the engineering team, review code and take ownership of team output.
- Make architectural decisions for a latency-sensitive distributed system.
- Establish engineering best practices and processes, and mentor engineers.
- Prioritize tasks so engineering work supports business objectives.
- Contribute directly to the codebase for roughly a quarter of your time.
- Hire a significant number of engineers over the next year.
- Partner with senior leadership on the engineering roadmap and own its execution.
- Improve developer productivity and system observability.
What we're looking for
- Experience as a staff engineer or team lead who has guided a team through architectural and technical decisions.
- Prior experience managing several engineers at a fast-growing startup.
- A history of shipping demanding systems where performance and dependability mattered.
- Depth in cloud engineering and distributed systems.
- Backend development experience with Python and Postgres.
- Comfort contributing on the frontend when needed.
- Strong interpersonal skills and enjoyment of coordinating with others.
- Curiosity, attention to detail and a systems view of how an engineering organization works.
- Willingness to work on-site four days a week.
Bonus points
- Background in a company building AI-driven conversational products.
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 240,000 to 260,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- San Francisco, California, United States
- On-site, 4 days per week in office with 1 work-from-home day possible
- 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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