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Founding Backend Software Engineer

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  • English (C1)

Salary

$225,000 - 275,000/ year

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About the Role

Join an early-stage AI video company as a founding backend engineer. You will lead backend architecture and engineering practices while building systems that power generative video and agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

  • 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 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 high-quality code.
  • Document systems, define agent skills, and communicate technical decisions clearly.

Requirements

  • Five to ten years of backend software engineering experience, including work at early-stage or high-growth startups.
  • Industry experience building agentic systems and working with LLMs or generative AI for at least one year.
  • Strong experience with scalable backend and distributed systems, large-scale data processing, information retrieval, and asynchronous workflows.
  • Professional experience with TypeScript and AWS; familiarity with services such as S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS, and ECS is relevant.
  • Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and system design, applied to production backend systems.
  • Experience acting as a technical lead and raising engineering standards through code and technical guidance.
  • A formal degree and fluent English communication skills.

Conditions

Base salary: $225,000 to $275,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

On-site in San Francisco, California.

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The office

No visa sponsorship

About the company

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  • Industry: AI

Office in San Francisco, United States

Your chances

Still hiring, not crowded yet, and you'd be among the first.

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  • 1 red flag

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11 checks

Actively hiring

In its favour4

  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 1 h agoModerate evidence
  • Found in the last 48 hours, before the big job boardsModerate evidence
  • Specific about the basics: pay, place, level, stack and contract all statedSlight evidence
1 moreFewer
  • A tight salary range, set for one seat: $225K to $275KSlight evidence

Against it1

  • Listed for the 6th time after earlier listings of it closedModerate evidence

How crowded?

6 checks

Low

In its favour3

  • In its Early Window: not on the big job boards yetStrong evidence
  • In the office in San Francisco: only people nearby can take itSlight evidence
  • Senior level: far fewer people qualifySlight evidence

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Details12 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment, Company, Requirements
Tech stack
  • TypeScript
  • AWS
  • LLMs
Type
Full-time
Industry
AI
Specialty
Backend
Region
United States
Pay period
Annual
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Role

Category
Development
Specialty
Backend
Tech stack
  • TypeScript
  • AWS
  • LLMs

Location

Work model
Office
Region
United States
Office
  • San Francisco, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not sponsored

Compensation

Salary
$225,000 - 275,000 / year
Pay period
Annual

Employment

Type
Full-time

Company

Industry
AI

Requirements

Languages
  • English (C1)

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