# Founding Software Engineer

About the company Our client is a fast-growing financial services company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. A hands-on generalist role building a new software product from its earliest stage, covering design, coding, deployment and keeping live services dependable. The person works in person with company leaders and first users, shaping features from initial need through release. What you'll do - Build and run end-to-end services and user-facing features, from initial scoping through production support. - Design backend systems that handle event flows reliably and grow with rising load while keeping downtime close to zero. - Work alongside early users to gather feedback and iterate quickly on the product plan. - Choose suitable tools for each problem, weighing speed of delivery against long-term maintainability. Requirements What we're looking for - Strong backend engineering fundamentals, with a backend or full-stack focus. - Demonstrated high ownership and agency as an individual contributor at a high-growth startup. - Proficiency in at least two modern programming languages commonly used for web and backend services. - Genuine interest in the

- **Id**: 3878420
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/raydar-founding-software-engineer-18>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T17:26:03Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T23:04:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1706
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Services

## Company

- **Id**: 4478753
- **Name**: Raydar
- **Domain**: raydar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/raydar-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 20
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 220000
- **Max**: 280000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 280000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T17:26:03Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 33; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 33 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 54
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.542
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 20
- **Reasons**: conf:2, agency, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 280000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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