Principal Engineer

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Act as the top individual-contributor engineer, responsible for the design, engineering standards and delivery of a major area of a software platform. The work blends hands-on development with technical mentorship and regular collaboration with executives and product counterparts.

What you'll do

- Take full accountability for a major technical area, covering its design, quality expectations and results.

- Design and write production code alongside your teammates to set the engineering bar by example.

- Join recurring leadership discussions and work with a product partner as a peer to achieve business goals.

- Coach and support engineers and team leads, strengthening their skills while remaining a hands-on contributor.

- Review and ship work while safeguarding quality and pace across multiple engineering groups.

- Encourage AI-first habits by building on current AI models and bringing consistency to the AI-assisted development tools the teams use.

- Contribute to a range of platform areas, such as runtime services, intelligent agents, integrations and data infrastructure.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- A decade or more of engineering experience delivering critical systems that run in production at significant scale.

- Solid skills in software design, reviewing technical architecture and writing code yourself.

- A record of launching new products from the ground up and carrying responsibility for an entire area of the system.

- Daily, in-depth use of current AI-assisted development tools.

- At least 2 years of recent experience at a growth-stage startup; a background at a large technology company is also welcome.

- Sound engineering fundamentals, ideally with Node.js and Python.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related STEM field.

- Ability to work on-site 5 days a week.

Bonus points

- Experience as a technical founder or founding engineer.

- Familiarity with conversational or voice AI, or with financial services technology.

- Articles, conference presentations or open-source contributions related to AI or platform engineering.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 335,000 to 375,000 per year

- Equity

- Health, dental and vision coverage

- Retirement plan

- Flexible time off

- Paid parental leave

- Mental health and wellness benefits

- Family benefits

Location and work model

- San Francisco, CA, United States

- On-site, 5 days per week in office

- Full-time