# 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
- Salary: $225K–275K
- Posted: 2026-11-11
- Skills: backend, AI video
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/e89170fd-f199-4818-b3ca-7becab9de8a2

## Description

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,

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