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Job description
About the Role
Join an early-stage AI video company as a founding backend engineer, helping build the infrastructure behind its generative video products. You will provide technical leadership on a small engineering team and shape scalable systems and engineering practices.
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 develop product features and APIs.
Set technical direction and engineering standards while contributing code and clear documentation.
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 designing and building agentic systems, LLMs, or generative AI for at least 12 months.
Experience building scalable backend and distributed systems, including large-scale data processing, information retrieval, and asynchronous workflows.
Professional experience with TypeScript and AWS; familiarity with tools such as S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS, ECS, FastAPI, Docker, and CI/CD.
Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and system design, with experience applying them in backend engineering.
Experience leading technical work, setting direction and code standards, and communicating decisions clearly.
A formal degree and fluent English communication skills.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $225,000 to $275,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California.