# Senior Software Engineer

> Raydar · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-15

**Salary:** USD 180,000–200,000

**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. Take ownership of backend capabilities for a data-heavy software platform, covering storage design, data flow, services and monitoring. Collaborate with product, design and customer-facing colleagues to ship features, and lead the move of LLM-driven automation from experiment to production.

What you'll do

\- Architect the schemas, ingestion layers and processing flows that keep a large-scale platform running.

\- Take full responsibility for backend features from initial design through APIs, infrastructure and monitoring.

\- Partner with product and engineering colleagues to translate user needs into both conventional and AI-driven features.

\- Create internal admin tooling that helps operate and manage the platform behind the scenes.

\- Guide LLM-powered automation from early research and model comparison through to a production release.

\- Assess and bring in new AI and developer tools that raise team velocity, code quality and maintainability.

\- Offer technical assistance to sales and customer success teammates as needed.

## Requirements

What we're looking for

\- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.

\- Hands-on background in designing scalable data storage, processing pipelines and system integrations, using Postgres.

\- Prior work at a company where AI was central, or experience releasing AI-powered products.

\- Solid backend engineering fundamentals.

\- A bachelor's degree.

\- A record of driving projects to completion with little supervision on a small, self-directed team.

\- US work authorization without sponsorship.

\- Ability to work from the office at least 4 days per week.

Bonus points

\- Familiarity with building LLM-based automation and conversational tools.

\- Proficiency in Python.

## Benefits

Compensation and benefits

\- Base salary: USD 180,000 to 200,000 per year

\- Equity

Location and work model

\- New York, NY, United States

\- On-site, at least 4 days per week in the office

\- Full-time

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/B3A43E4BEE/apply)

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