Senior Real-Time Backend Architect (Low-Latency)

raydar; San Francisco (CA); Sur place; USD 250 000 - 320 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

raydar is a fast-growing fintech company based in San Francisco, seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own backend architecture for low-latency, real-time services. The role emphasizes speed, resilience, and production readiness within a compact team, with close collaboration with founders across infrastructure and reliability.

You will drive performance improvements, deploy and operate distributed systems on container orchestration, and contribute to machine learning components that learn from

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Computer Science degree required.
• Experience building fast, time-sensitive backend or full-stack software.
• Strong database design and performance optimization skills.
• Solid grasp of how multi-node software stays available and recovers from failures.
• Hands-on history of carrying backend services from build through to production with accountability.
• Comfort owning design and architecture across an entire product.
• Familiarity with AI and large language models.

Responsabilités

• Design and own core backend systems for low-latency, real-time services.
• Drive performance and reliability improvements using event-driven designs and parallel processing.
• Collaborate with a small engineering group and founders across infrastructure, backend and reliability work.
• Deploy, operate and scale fault-tolerant distributed systems on container orchestration.
• Take features from initial design through to live production, often within days.
• Help build and refine machine learning systems that improve from ongoing feedback.

Connaissances

Backend design

Distributed systems

Database optimization

Production-grade software

Full-stack capability

AI/ML familiarity

Formation

Computer Science degree

Outils

Python

SQL

Description du poste

raydar is a fast-growing fintech company based in San Francisco, seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own backend architecture for low-latency, real-time services. The role emphasizes speed, resilience, and production readiness within a compact team, with close collaboration with founders across infrastructure and reliability.

You will drive performance improvements, deploy and operate distributed systems on container orchestration, and contribute to machine learning components that learn from