# Engineering Team Lead

> Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-30

**Salary:** USD 240,000–260,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## 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. Lead a small engineering group while staying hands-on in the codebase, owning technical direction, team processes and delivery. The role blends architecture decisions for a performance-sensitive distributed system with mentoring, prioritization and hiring as the team grows.

What you'll do

\- Lead the engineering team, review code and take ownership of team output.

\- Make architectural decisions for a latency-sensitive distributed system.

\- Establish engineering best practices and processes, and mentor engineers.

\- Prioritize tasks so engineering work supports business objectives.

\- Contribute directly to the codebase for roughly a quarter of your time.

\- Hire a significant number of engineers over the next year.

\- Partner with senior leadership on the engineering roadmap and own its execution.

\- Improve developer productivity and system observability.

## Requirements

What we're looking for

\- Experience as a staff engineer or team lead who has guided a team through architectural and technical decisions.

\- Prior experience managing several engineers at a fast-growing startup.

\- A history of shipping demanding systems where performance and dependability mattered.

\- Depth in cloud engineering and distributed systems.

\- Backend development experience with Python and Postgres.

\- Comfort contributing on the frontend when needed.

\- Strong interpersonal skills and enjoyment of coordinating with others.

\- Curiosity, attention to detail and a systems view of how an engineering organization works.

\- Willingness to work on-site four days a week.

Bonus points

\- Background in a company building AI-driven conversational products.

## Benefits

Compensation and benefits

\- Base salary: USD 240,000 to 260,000 per year

\- Equity

Location and work model

\- San Francisco, California, United States

\- On-site, 4 days per week in office with 1 work-from-home day possible

\- Full-time

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/9E1D8C21F2/apply)

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