Senior Software Engineer - Backend - AI Clips Team

Role overview

A senior backend role inside the team building AI-powered clips, focused on solving complex scaling challenges and shipping reliable services for a live-streaming platform. The work emphasizes simplicity, durability, and rapid iteration in a small team where each engineer has visible ownership over the systems they touch.

Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain features in the web services that power the product - Design and implement backend APIs and the business logic required to support new and existing features - Participate in code review, both giving and receiving feedback with the team - Track emerging technologies and surface practical opportunities within the environment - Ensure redundancy and resilience of the production infrastructure

Requirements

- An entrepreneurial mindset that ships high-quality projects quickly - Deep expertise in at least one general-purpose programming language - Highly proficient in database design across both relational and NoSQL systems such as Scylla and Redis - Hands-on experience creating, testing, consuming, and supporting APIs for web services - Comfort with AWS, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, continuous deployment, and working across multiple languages in the stack - Basic front-end skills - Strong written and verbal communication; self-directed, analytical, and collaborative

Nice to have

- Familiarity with Node.js (TypeScript) or Rust - Experience with modern front-end frameworks

Benefits and work setup

- Startup culture with a flat structure and close collaboration with founders and the broader team - Direct influence on product direction and evolution - Eligibility for an equity package - The hardware and tooling needed to do the job