Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, Equity, Scalable APIs

raydar; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision coverage

Equity

Retirement plan

Job summary

Raydar is seeking a backend engineer to design and build dependable, scalable services and APIs for a software platform. You will partner with frontend, design and product teams on fast-moving features and tackle scaling challenges while writing clean, readable code.

The role requires a strong command of data structures and algorithms, proven debugging skills, and hands-on Java on AWS experience. Experience in high-growth startups and comfort with intelligence-assisted coding tools are a bonus.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience debugging and removing performance bottlenecks.
• Hands-on backend experience with Java on AWS.
• Experience in fast-paced, high-growth startups.
• Willingness to work with intelligence-assisted coding tools.

Responsibilities

• Create dependable interfaces and server-side services that scale.
• Write clean, minimal code that others can follow.
• Collaborate with frontend, design and product teams on shared features.
• Tackle hard scaling challenges as they arise.
• Address core business problems the software must solve.

Skills

Data structures

Algorithms

Java

AWS

Backend engineering

Concurrency

Job description

Raydar is seeking a backend engineer to design and build dependable, scalable services and APIs for a software platform. You will partner with frontend, design and product teams on fast-moving features and tackle scaling challenges while writing clean, readable code.

The role requires a strong command of data structures and algorithms, proven debugging skills, and hands-on Java on AWS experience. Experience in high-growth startups and comfort with intelligence-assisted coding tools are a bonus.