backend · AI video
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join an early-stage AI video team as a founding backend engineer, helping build the systems behind generative video products. You will provide technical leadership on a small team and establish strong engineering practices as the product and infrastructure grow.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design and develop scalable backend systems for AI-powered video creation.
- Build 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 benchmarks, and end-to-end observability.
- Partner with research, engineering, and design teammates to develop product features and APIs.
- Write production code, set technical direction and engineering guidelines, and raise the team's engineering standards.
- Document systems and technical decisions clearly in a fast-moving, on-site environment.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Five to ten years of backend software engineering experience, including experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup.
- Professional experience building scalable backend and distributed systems, including large-scale data processing, information retrieval, or asynchronous workflows.
- At least one year of industry experience designing and building agentic systems, LLMs, or generative AI products.
- Industry experience with TypeScript and AWS; familiarity with S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS, ECS, FastAPI, Docker, and CI/CD is relevant.
- Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures,