About the company
Our client is a financial services technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as the engineer responsible for the shared technical foundation that a small product engineering group builds on. Emphasis is on dependable, cost-conscious and fast systems, with strong attention to security and compliance expectations.
What you'll do
- Design and run core services and the environments they operate in.
- Create secure, isolated environments where automated AI workloads can run safely.
- Build internal tools that make day-to-day engineering work smoother and quicker.
- Tune speed and spending as traffic and data volumes rise.
- Keep the technical foundation steady as the business grows and takes on new entities.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- A track record of designing and owning shared internal systems or engineering tools at a fast-moving technology company.
- Strong skills in designing server-side software, including APIs, databases and data pipelines.
- Practical experience running workloads in the cloud, using containers and automating releases.
Bonus points
- Experience keeping systems steady through fast expansion or company mergers.
- Background in a regulated sector such as fintech, healthcare or finance.
- Familiarity with sandboxing and safe execution of untrusted code.
- Experience with data warehousing and query tuning.
- Experience building or integrating infrastructure for AI agents.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in office
- Full-time
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