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
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