Founding Engineer
Raydar
Founding Engineer
Raydar
AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles
Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-12
Salary: USD 140,000–210,000
Workplace: on_site
About the company
Our client is a software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join a small team as a full-stack engineer who works across the whole product, from user-facing features to backend services and background jobs. The role covers building and owning production systems, taking work from investigation through to release, and helping shape technical decisions alongside the company's technical lead.
What you'll do
- Build and scale candidate sourcing and outreach systems that find people for specialized work.
- Design and extend a programmatic interface that external software partners integrate with.
- Develop conversational agents for voice and chat, and make their behavior reliable and easy to review.
- Build core platform logic for matching, pricing and effort estimation.
- Design and build onboarding, task instructions and payout flows for external contributors.
- Take ownership of production behavior by investigating failures across application code, scheduled jobs and third-party services.
- Work with technical leadership on the architecture of autonomous agent and real-time voice systems.
What we're looking for
- At least three years of full-stack software engineering experience.
- Two to six years of professional experience overall.
- Strong working knowledge of TypeScript, React and Postgres.
- Ability to understand a product end to end quickly, ideally within the first month.
- Comfort picking up unfamiliar parts of a technology stack.
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 140,000 to 210,000 per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement plan with employer matching
- Relocation support
Location and work model
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- On-site
- 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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