# Staff Software Engineer

> Raydar · United States (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-15

**Salary:** CAD 200,000–250,000

**Workplace:** remote

## Description

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

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/14E94F4967/apply)

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