Senior Backend Engineer — Data Pipelines & APIs (NY)

raydar; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Retirement plan

Health, dental and vision coverage

Job summary

Raydar is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in New York to join a small, senior engineering group. You’ll focus on backend and data work, building pipelines and reliable scrapers, and exposing data services via APIs.

You’ll own components end-to-end and help keep large-scale data collection dependable. The role emphasizes ownership, a generalist perspective, and comfort delivering in a fast-moving environment with a base salary in a market range, plus equity and retirement benefits.

Qualifications

• 2+ years hands-on engineering in a fast-moving environment.
• Interest or experience with statistics, ML or AI.
• Experience with data pipelines and backend services.

Responsibilities

• Build pipelines that enrich documents with derived metadata and relationships between records.
• Create systems that keep a large fleet of web scrapers reliable and accurate.
• Optimize and evaluate parsing and resolving references in text.
• Expose core data services through APIs and programmatic interfaces.
• Benchmark tasks using human and synthetic methods.
• Stand up projects end-to-end on your preferred infrastructure.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Backend development

Statistics

Machine Learning

AI

Engineering fundamentals

Job description

Raydar is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in New York to join a small, senior engineering group. You’ll focus on backend and data work, building pipelines and reliable scrapers, and exposing data services via APIs.

You’ll own components end-to-end and help keep large-scale data collection dependable. The role emphasizes ownership, a generalist perspective, and comfort delivering in a fast-moving environment with a base salary in a market range, plus equity and retirement benefits.