Quick overview
Job description
About the Role
Join an early-stage AI video team as its founding backend engineer. You will lead the design of the backend and agentic infrastructure that powers AI-driven video creation, while helping establish engineering standards for a small, high-caliber team.
What You'll Do
Design and build scalable backend systems for AI video products.
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 build product features and APIs.
Set technical direction and engineering standards through strong implementation, clear documentation, and effective communication.
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 building scalable backend and distributed systems, large-scale data processing, information retrieval, and asynchronous workflows.
At least 12 months of industry experience designing and building agentic systems, LLMs, or generative AI products.
Professional experience with TypeScript and AWS, including relevant services such as S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS, or ECS.
Experience as a technical lead, setting technical direction and code standards for a team.
A formal degree, strong computer science fundamentals, and fluent English communication skills.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $225,000 to $275,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site, five days per week in San Francisco, California.