The candidate must have experience owning projects from 0 to 1, taking a customer problem through to shipped software.
The candidate must have engineering experience at a fast-growing startup.
The candidate must have hands-on experience across the whole stack, from user-facing code to server components, data stores, and asynchronous processing.
The candidate must have strong product and design instincts with a high degree of ownership.
Responsibilities
Deliver whole products, from the user interface down through service layers, data design, and deployment.
Speak directly with end users and review support conversations and usage data to find where they get stuck.
Turn loosely defined problems into shipped products, choosing what to build as well as how to build it.
Prototype quickly and refine the experience from first sign-up through production use.
Take part in shaping how the engineering group works and which design conventions it follows from the start.
Desired Qualifications
Experience as a founding or early member of a startup.
Founding Product Engineer
Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-26
Salary: USD 200,000–250,000
Workplace: on_site
Description
About the company
Our client is a technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own product work from the first customer problem through shipped software, spanning interfaces, services, data and infrastructure. The role combines hands-on building with deciding what to build, and shaping how the product engineering function works from its earliest days.
What you'll do
- Deliver whole products, from the user interface down through service layers, data design and deployment.
- Speak directly with end users and review support conversations and usage data to find where they get stuck.
- Turn loosely defined problems into shipped products, choosing what to build as well as how to build it.
- Prototype quickly and refine the experience from first sign-up through production use.
- Take part in shaping how the engineering group works and which design conventions it follows from the start.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 0 to 7 years of experience.
- Experience owning projects from 0 to 1, taking a customer problem through to shipped software.
- Engineering experience at a fast-growing startup.
- Hands-on experience across the whole stack, from user-facing code to server components, data stores and asynchronous processing.
- Strong product and design instincts with a high degree of ownership.
Bonus points
- Experience as a founding or early member of a startup.