Quick overview
Job description
About the Role
Join an early-stage AI video team as a founding backend engineer. You will lead backend architecture and development for systems that support generative video products and agentic workflows.
What You'll Do
Design and build scalable backend systems for AI-powered video generation.
Develop infrastructure for agentic workflows, video pipelines, reinforcement learning loops, and real-time data processing.
Own distributed systems architecture, improving reliability through automated testing, performance benchmarks, and end-to-end observability.
Partner with researchers, engineers, and designers to deliver product features and APIs.
Set technical direction and engineering standards while contributing high-quality code.
Document systems, define agent skills, and communicate technical decisions across the team.
What We're Looking For
Five to ten years of backend software engineering experience, including work at an early-stage or high-growth startup.
Industry experience building scalable 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.
Professional experience with TypeScript and AWS, including services such as S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS, or ECS.
Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and system design, applied in professional engineering work.
Experience serving as a technical lead, setting direction and standards while remaining hands-on.
A formal degree, fluent English, and authorization to work without visa sponsorship.
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.