Senior Backend Engineer
RayluNew York, New York, United States
Posted October 27, 2025
165000 - 250000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Raylu is a cutting-edge AI platform that revolutionizes private market investing by providing tailored financial intelligence for diligence, deal sourcing, and decision-making. By seamlessly integrating with existing systems and analyzing complex data, Raylu empowers investors to focus on high-potential opportunities, delivering actionable insights faster and more accurately. Trusted by leading financial institutions, Raylu enables funds to outperform the competition and achieve bigger wins.
Job Description
We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to drive architectural decisions and own systems that are low-latency, resilient, and cost-aware.
Requirements
- TS-first backend: Expert in Node/Typescript services; bonus points for production Go.
- Systems & scale: Deep grasp of memory management, distributed systems, durable execution, and edge functions.
- Queues & state: Hands-on with Temporal (or equivalent durable workflows) and Redis at scale.
- Cloud & reliability: Comfortable shipping/operating in modern cloud environments with strong observability habits.
- LLM-aware: Familiarity with LLM integrations and their operational quirks is a plus.
- Product sense: You make pragmatic tradeoffs, communicate risk clearly, and choose designs that unblock the roadmap.
- Opinionated: 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.
Benefits
- Generous health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k with 3% automatic contribution (no vesting)
- Paid Lunches
- Wellness and Citi Bike benefit