Backend Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Engineering
We are building a next-generation creative SaaS platform that enables real-time generative workflows for images and video. As a Backend Engineer, you will design and scale the systems that power high-throughput model inference, user data pipelines, and collaborative features.
What you'll do
Design and maintain APIs for real-time generative workloads
Build scalable services for job orchestration and queueing
Optimize latency and throughput for inference pipelines
Work closely with ML engineers to productionize models
Improve reliability, observability, and system performance
Requirements
Distributed systems and microservices architecture
High-performance backend frameworks (Go, Rust, or Python)
Working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Databases (PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar)
Event-driven systems and streaming architectures
Things to know
We prioritize speed and iteration over heavy process
You will work closely with a small, senior team
Systems must scale rapidly with product growth