Staff Software Engineer
Hands-on senior technical lead on a small product engineering team at a healthcare technology company: builds full-stack customer-facing features end to end, including LLM-powered functionality, while mentoring junior engineers and setting architecture and engineering practices. Hybrid, 3 days/week in San Francisco; $210–260k base plus equity.
- Compensation
- $210K–$260K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Prior experience directing the technical work of a group of engineers, including steering major initiatives
- Product engineering background with hands-on delivery of customer-facing products built from the ground up
- Full-stack ability to own a feature end to end (backend lean acceptable)
- Recent hands-on work bringing LLM-based functionality into live use over the past two years
- Ability to set best practices for code quality and review
- Works cross-functionally to understand user needs and shape new products
Nice to have
- 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; working with multi-step agentic pipelines
- Interest in life sciences or healthcare
Full description
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