About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead a software engineering team that owns a broad set of third-party connectors, splitting time between people leadership and hands-on technical work. Set priorities, coach engineers and keep the team delivering quickly at a high standard.
What you'll do
- Lead by example and raise the bar for technical execution across the team.
- Prioritize incoming requests for new and enhanced connectors, balancing near-term business needs with longer-term engineering improvements.
- Improve data throughput to varied external systems through parallelism, batching, rate-limit handling and algorithmic optimization.
- Stay hands-on with engineering work alongside the team.
- Mentor and guide engineers, giving them high ownership and autonomy.
- Work with customers and partners to design solutions for new use cases.
- Recruit, hire and develop software engineers.
- Explore how AI tools can help the team ship faster and with higher quality.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Prior people-management background of about 1 to 4 years, such as a team lead or early-stage engineering manager role, including recruiting and leading software engineers.
- A history of engineering work on shared infrastructure layers, such as data movement, external APIs or synchronization systems.
- A player-coach approach and comfort pairing with engineers on technical work regularly.
- Meaningful time at a high-growth startup, having joined during a phase of rapid scaling.
- A degree in computer science, math or a similar field.
- A record of impact and career progression, with average tenure longer than 2 years.
- Enthusiasm for quick delivery cycles and compact, hands-on projects.
- Ability to reason from first principles and form clear opinions on ambiguous problems.
- Clear communication and a passion for mentoring newer engineers.
Bonus points
- Background in performance tuning, such as parallel processing and batching.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 320,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- Remote (US or Canada)
- Full-time
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