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Role description

Founding Engineer

RA
Raydar
Founding role
TypeFull-time
SeniorityMid-level
Salary$140,000–$210,000
LocationSan Francisco, CA
Posted11/12/2026
Engineering

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.

Requirements

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.

Benefits

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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