Raya

Build and lead backend components focusing on location and search systems with cross-functional collaboration and agile practices. | 6+ years in software development with expertise in system design, Node.js, TypeScript, location-based systems, search technologies, and database performance. | Job Description: • Collaborate, build, and lead key components of our Core Discovery services, with a focus on the Maps and Location surfaces and our Directory search experience. • Work hand-in-hand with cross-functional teams, ranging from UX designers to data scientists, ensuring our solutions are comprehensive and user focused. • Stay updated with the latest in Raya's tech ecosystem, ensuring our solutions are scalable, maintainable, and innovative. • Prioritize and advocate for top-tier user experiences, utilizing feedback loops and data-driven methodologies to define and refine product features. • Navigate the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, and Raya's best practices are integrated into all development phases. Requirements: • 6+ years of hands-on experience in modern software development environments, with a track record of delivering scalable and maintainable systems. • Demonstrated expertise in system design, architecture, and mastery in Node.js and TypeScript. • Proven experience in building and scaling backend systems in production at a startup or fast-moving environment. • Production experience with location-based systems: geospatial data, geo indexing, proximity and nearby queries, and mapping surfaces. This is the primary need for this role. • Experience building search systems (relevance, ranking, Elasticsearch or similar) for a consumer product. Strongly preferred. • Strong data fundamentals across a relational database (PostgreSQL) and a document store (MongoDB), including indexing and query performance. • Enthusiasm around new AI tools and frameworks, and a willingness to quickly adopt emerging best practices. Benefits: • 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 • $1,000 a year travel budget