Our client is a generative AI creative suite that enables creatives to do text2image, text2video, image2video, and video2vide, as well as a creative AI research studio.
Customers use their platform to:
- Create music videos
- Animate album art covers
- Make concert visuals
- Craft full-length films
- Repurpose content with an imaginative twist
Bootstrapped to $5M ARR and recently raised a $8M seed round; due to rapid growth, they are seeking a Principal Backend Engineer amongst a current team of 12.
Job Responsibilities
This role's responsibility is an equal mix of Backend and DevOps. You will be responsible for and own most (if not all) of our backend systems.
You will:
- Design and implement backend components to power user-facing features and AI models. (Backend)
- Design and simplify backend business logic to reduce operational burden and system complexity and automate operational tasks. (Backend + DevOps)
- Build and operate event-based systems (e.g. Kafka). (Backend)
- Build and operate batch processing systems (e.g. Spark). (Backend)
- Dramatically improve engineering productivity by enhancing CI/CD pipelines. (DevOps)
- Set up and operate Kubernetes clusters (DevOps)
Skills:
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Write high-quality code, fast (you will be spending >50% of time in coding in this role).
- Three years of experience in Node.js development
- Experience in operating Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and observability platforms.
