About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Act as an early, senior-level product engineer who owns features from first concept through production. Build customer-facing applications and the backend services behind them, with a focus on AI-driven automation that can be trusted. Work directly with customers to gather requirements and help shape the roadmap.
What you'll do
- Build new functionality end to end, from the backend logic to the user interface people use every day.
- Own the underlying framework that lets AI-driven automation manage context, coordinate tasks, keep state and request human sign-off on important actions.
- Develop backend APIs, third-party integrations, background jobs and data pipelines that turn messy inputs into clean, reliable data.
- Make automated AI features dependable through evaluations based on real workflows, failure tracing, recovery and escalation paths, and model choices informed by production results.
- Build polished web interfaces with React alongside the backend services that power them.
- Speak with customers, gather requirements and, where needed, take ownership of customer-specific workflows.
- Learn from production usage and contribute to the roadmap and strategic decisions.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 1 to 3 years of software engineering experience, with strength in product engineering using React and/or LLM-based applications.
- Solid fundamentals in Python or JavaScript/TypeScript, and willingness to become productive in both.
- Hands-on experience launching autonomous AI features into production, including building and debugging the supporting framework.
- Experience working across multiple model providers.
- A substantial project you can discuss in depth, including architecture, trade-offs, limitations and what you would change.
- Close attention to messy details such as missing data, duplicates, unexpected inputs and confusing user experiences.
- Founder mindset with strong ownership, agency and comfort turning vague problems into finished work.
- Good product intuition and taste, with care for the reasons behind what gets built.
- Strong communication skills and comfort working directly with customers.
- Early-stage startup experience is strongly preferred.
Bonus points
- Familiarity with retrieval techniques, data modeling, and evaluation, tracing, cost and permissions practices.
- Experience as a founder or building something real.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 150,000 to 220,000 per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and medical coverage
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site
- Full-time
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