Staff Software Engineer

About the company

Our client is a small healthcare technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as the senior hands-on technical lead on a small product engineering team, writing and reviewing code every day while guiding more junior engineers. The work covers building customer-facing features across the full stack, including LLM-powered functionality, and the role helps set engineering practices and architecture from an early stage.

What you'll do

• Take end-to-end ownership of AI-driven product features, from early design through release.
• Lead and mentor a small group of junior engineers, setting standards for code review and engineering workflow.
• Work alongside product, customer-facing staff and company leadership to scope what gets built next.
• Design and deliver full-stack work spanning user interfaces, back-end services, infrastructure and data pipelines.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• 8 or more years of software engineering experience.
• Prior experience directing the technical work of a group of engineers, including steering major initiatives and organizing colleagues' efforts.
• Product engineering background with hands-on delivery of customer-facing products built from the ground up, rather than deep infrastructure work.
• Full-stack ability to own a feature end to end, with a backend lean acceptable.
• Recent hands-on work bringing language-model-based functionality into live use over the past two years.
• Ability to set best practices for code quality and review on a team new to them.
• Works cross-functionally to understand user needs and help shape new products.

Bonus points

• Experience across both early-stage startups and larger engineering organizations.
• Computer science degree or equivalent work experience.
• Experience setting up AI evaluation or LLM observability tooling in production, and working with multi-step agentic pipelines.
• Interest in life sciences or healthcare.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 210,000 to 260,000 per year
• Equity
• Health insurance coverage
• Retirement plan

Location and work model

• San Francisco, CA, United States
• Hybrid, 3 days in-office per week
• Full-time