Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

We're a bootstrapped GenAI platform serving image and video generation at real scale — Fortune 500 clients, $35M+ ARR, and traffic that doesn't wait for you to catch up. We need a backend engineer who thinks in systems, not just services. You'll own the architecture behind our generation pipelines, inference orchestration, and the infrastructure that keeps latency low while volume climbs.

Key responsibilities

• Design and own backend systems that handle high‑throughput, asynchronous workloads (generation queues, worker orchestration, media processing).
• Architect for scale and reliability – make decisions on data flow, service boundaries, and failure handling.
• Build and optimize async pipelines: job queuing, retries, backpressure, dead‑letter handling, and everything that keeps millions of requests moving.
• Improve performance and cost at the infrastructure level – inference is expensive, and efficiency is a product feature.
• Set technical direction and raise the engineering bar for the team through review and mentorship.

Required profile

• Strong backend experience (5+ years) with real ownership of production systems at scale.
• Proven system design skills – you can defend architecture decisions with trade‑offs, not buzzwords.
• Hands‑on experience with asynchronous pipelines, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, or similar), and distributed workers.
• Comfort with high‑concurrency, high‑throughput environments.
• Ability to work independently in a fast, low‑process, bootstrapped environment.

Required skills

• Go
• Kafka
• RabbitMQ
• Amazon SQS
• Distributed workers
• Asynchronous pipelines