# Founding Software Engineer

> Raydar · San Francisco, United States (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-19

**Salary:** USD 250,000–275,000

**Workplace:** hybrid

## 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 technical delivery of customer deployments for a software platform, from integration work through ongoing tuning. Work directly with customers and a very small engineering team, deciding what to build from loosely defined requests and helping shape the engineering culture and future hiring.

What you'll do

\- Fix bugs and ship platform extensions early on, then take ownership of a product area and later a major customer account.

\- Build and tune the behavior of AI-powered features across several communication channels, including tool use and evaluation.

\- Work directly with customer contacts to handle their ongoing feature requests and questions.

\- Take new customer pilots from kickoff to first value and help convert them into contracts.

\- Partner closely with senior engineering leadership to shape the product, the engineering culture and hiring.

## Requirements

What we're looking for

\- 4 to 8 years of experience as a product or full-stack engineer.

\- Direct customer-facing experience, turning customer requests into shipped features.

\- A track record of taking applications powered by large language models into production use by live users.

\- Full-stack or backend engineering experience, ideally with TypeScript, Python or Postgres.

\- Experience working at a startup.

\- Ability to decide what to build from an ambiguous request.

\- Availability to start by mid-November 2026.

Bonus points

\- Experience with voice or telephony infrastructure.

\- Background at a customer experience or payments technology company.

## Benefits

Compensation and benefits

\- Base salary: USD 250,000 to 275,000 per year

\- Equity

\- Relocation support

Location and work model

\- San Francisco, California, United States

\- Hybrid, 3 days per week in the office

\- Full-time

## Apply

[Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/C0D5351F0F/apply)

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