Raylu Ai

Senior Backend Engineer

New York, USA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$165k-$250kDetected 268 days ago

TypeScriptNode.jsDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentRedisCloud PlatformsTemporalLLMsLogistics

About the role

We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to be the scaling expert behind our core systems.

Deep level of understanding of the technological landscape, making both high level system and granular code design decisions based on understanding rather than preference - diving deep on unknown patterns in order to build the best product.
Architect, build, and operate backend services that are fast, fault-tolerant, and easy to evolve.
Establish performance baselines and SLOs; design for durability and graceful degradation.
Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers across code quality, testing, and ops.

Familiarity with LLM integrations and their operational quirks is a plus.
TS-first backend: Expert in Node/Typescript services
LLM-aware: Familiarity with LLM integrations and their operational quirks is a plus.

Comfortable shipping/operating in modern cloud environments with strong observability habits.

$165K - $250K salary, $100K-200K equivalent in new hire equity (4 year vest) Location: New York City.
We are a fully in-office team working out of Midtown Manhattan Monday through Friday.
We allow for WFH days when anyone is traveling, but we do not allow for permanent remote work.

Generous health, dental, and vision insurance 401k with 3% automatic contribution (no vesting) Paid Lunches Wellness and Citi Bike benefit

New York City.
We are a fully in-office team working out of Midtown Manhattan Monday through Friday.
We allow for WFH days when anyone is traveling, but we do not allow for permanent remote work.

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