Senior Software Engineer - AI-Powered Marketplace

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our innovative team at Raydar. This is a unique opportunity to work on an AI-powered recruiter marketplace that has rapidly scaled from $11M to $80M ARR in under a year. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of hiring technology. This position offers a competitive salary range of $150,000 to $275,000, along with equity options.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end delivery of features across the marketplace—from candidate matching logic to recruiter-facing tooling to the underlying data pipelines that power it all.
• Build core recruiter workflow tools: AI notetakers, email sequencing, browser extensions, and intelligent candidate-matching surfaces.
• Design and implement incentive and compensation systems that define how recruiters work and earn on our platform.
• Create new paradigms for how candidates discover opportunities through recruiters—laying the groundwork for the next generation of hiring infrastructure.
• Explore marketplace expansion into new verticals like Legal, Finance, and Healthcare.
• Collaborate closely with product and design to ship features that directly affect customers and revenue.

Requirements

• 3–8 years of experience as a mid/senior/lead/staff engineer with a track record of shipping products that moved metrics and had real customer impact.
• Experience working at reputable early-stage startups (Seed–Series B) or later-stage companies with excellent engineering or product cultures.
• Genuine 0-1 experience—side projects, former founder background, open source contributions, or hackathons that demonstrate agency and initiative.
• Strong product sense, high ownership, and low ego—ability to take ambiguous problems and drive them to solutions without waiting for a spec.
• Clear and concise communication skills—purposeful with what you say and able to articulate ideas efficiently.
• Genuine excitement about marketplaces or the recruiting/hiring space and eagerness to grow with the business.

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with TypeScript, React, or PostgreSQL.
• Background working on marketplace products—understanding supply/demand dynamics, liquidity challenges, or incentive design.
• Comfort discussing infrastructure and architectural trade-offs with senior engineers and leadership.

What We Offer

• Competitive base salary + equity.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Gym membership.
• Global team offsites.
• All meals covered at the office.
• In-person culture with direct access to founders and fast decision cycles.
• Massive ownership—software that directly shapes how companies hire at scale.

Logistics

Must be based in San Francisco or willing to relocate; on-site full-time. Work authorization in the U.S. (visa sponsorship considered on a case-by-case basis).