About the Role
Join an early-stage team building generative AI video technology as its founding backend engineer. You will provide technical leadership while developing the scalable systems and infrastructure that support AI-powered video workflows.
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 deliver product features and APIs.
Set technical direction and engineering standards, write production-quality code, and document technical decisions and agent skills.
What We're Looking For
Five to ten years of backend software engineering experience, including work at an early-stage or high-growth startup.
Experience designing scalable backend and distributed systems, large-scale data processing, information retrieval, and asynchronous workflows.
At least 12 months of industry experience building agentic systems and working with LLMs or generative AI at a technology company.
Industry experience with TypeScript and AWS. Experience with services and tools such as S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS, ECS, FastAPI, Docker, and CI/CD is relevant.
A formal degree, strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and system design, and experience setting technical direction and code standards.
Fluent English communication skills, both written and spoken.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $225,000 to $275,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site, five days per week in San Francisco, California.