# Founding Backend Software Engineer at True Talent Solutions Partners

- Company: True Talent Solutions Partners
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Francisco
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: Backend
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-11-03
- Skills: Go, Kubernetes
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/b724c214-0122-4dae-8b8f-715a1dae3a34

## Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join an early-stage AI video company as a founding backend engineer, helping build the infrastructure behind its generative video products. You will provide technical leadership on a small engineering team and shape scalable systems and engineering practices.


WHAT YOU'LL DO

 - Design and build scalable backend systems for AI-powered video creation.

 - Develop infrastructure for agentic workflows, video generation pipelines, reinforcement learning loops, and real-time data processing.

 - Own distributed systems architecture and improve reliability through automated testing, performance benchmarking, and end-to-end observability.

 - Partner with researchers, engineers, and designers to develop product features and APIs.

 - Set technical direction and engineering standards while contributing code and clear documentation.


WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

 - Five to ten years of backend software engineering experience, including work at early-stage or high-growth startups.

 - Industry experience designing and building agentic systems, LLMs, or generative AI for at least 12 months.

 - Experience building scalable backend and distributed systems, including large-scale data processing, information retrieval, and asynchronous workflows.

 - Professional experience with TypeScript and AWS; familiarity with tools such as S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS, ECS, FastAPI, Docker, and CI/CD.

 - Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and system design, with experience applying them in backend engineering.

 - Experience leading technical work, setting direction and code s

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