Raya
Raya

Full-Stack Engineer, Internal Tools

TLDR

Shape internal tools with recommendation, ranking, and smarter automation while setting technical direction and engineering standards.

You're the technical leader for Internal Tools, owning architecture, quality, and engineering standards for the tools our internal teams rely on every day. This isn't a maintenance role. You'll bring recommendation, ranking, and other data-driven techniques to bear on how our tools work, and push for smarter automation wherever it saves people time. We're looking for someone adept in AI-collaborative development who can define the right problems and balance human and technology intelligence to solve them thoughtfully. You'll work directly with the Engineering Manager, who brings product requirements and technical vision; you turn them into specs, system designs, and implementation plans. You're the team's top technical voice and a high-output IC at once. Expect roughly a 80/20 split between hands-on coding and technical leadership.

We offer comprehensive medical and dental coverage, $50 a day food delivery budget, equity based employment, a great culture, learning opportunities, unlimited vacation, 12 weeks paid parental leave, and we pay all employees $1,000 a year to go somewhere in the world that they've never been because of our values of human connection, empathy, and curiosity.

Responsibilities

  • Own technical direction for Internal Tools, including front-end architecture and component/design system strategy, and turn product requirements into technical designs and engineering tickets
  • Design and build new internal tools and admin features end-to-end, front-end through back-end
  • Find opportunities to apply recommendation, ranking, and search techniques to our tools, partnering with data science and product to set priorities
  • Drive down technical debt through targeted refactors and set engineering standards through design reviews
  • Build reusable components and tooling that pay off beyond a single project
  • Be the escalation point for deep debugging, and partner with security to keep admin interfaces locked down
  • Help engineers grow through pairing, code review, and direct feedback; write the specs and docs that let the team build with confidence
  • Qualifications

  • 5+ years building software, with a track record of shipping systems that scale
  • Strong system design and architecture skills
  • Extensive experience in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js
  • Advanced, production-grade React skills
  • Hands-on with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Elasticsearch, including performance tuning
  • Experience building and scaling backend systems, ideally at a startup or small company
  • Track record of mentoring engineers
  • What Sets You Apart

  • Production experience with Next.js
  • Experience with recommendation, ranking, or search systems
  • Product-minded: you think about users, not just systems
  • Background building internal tools or ops platforms
  • Comfortable with cloud infrastructure, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD
  • Familiar with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or shipping ML in production
  • Benefits

    Equity Compensation

    Equity-based employment

    Free Meals & Snacks

    Food delivery budget of $50 per day

    Health Insurance

    Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

    Learning Budget

    Learning opportunities

    Travel stipend

    We pay all employees $1,000 a year to go somewhere in the world that they've never been

    Paid Parental Leave

    12 weeks paid parental leave

    Paid Time Off

    Unlimited vacation

    Remote-Friendly

    Fully remote role

    Raya builds an exclusive membership-based social network aimed at connecting individuals in creative industries through meaningful interactions. The platform emphasizes privacy and trust, featuring two main applications: a networking app that cultivates professional relationships and a travel app that offers curated recommendations for members. This unique approach to social networking makes Raya a distinct player in the industry.

    Founded
    Founded 2015
    Employees
    51-200 employees
    Industry
    Internet Software & Services
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