Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy backend services powering creative brainstorming and creation products
• Work with web and video standards to power web-based image and video creation/editing tools
• Build and deploy backend services and APIs to AWS infrastructure
• Write secure, stable, and scalable Python code
• Interface with foundation models and integrate with Postgres, Redis, S3, and DynamoDB to implement event streaming and processing logic

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience building backend services
• Experience developing scalable services using Python with frameworks like FastAPI and Pydantic
• Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS
• Experience working with relational databases

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building high availability services using CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting
• Familiarity with authentication/authorization standards such as OAuth2, OIDC, and JWT
• Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with dev-containers
• Familiarity with AWS IAM, ALB/NLB, Route53, S3, and Cloudflare
• Experience developing/scaling pipelines and event streaming/processing in AWS using SQS or Kafka
• Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker, specifically for deploying machine learning models on NVIDIA hardware

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity
• 401k
• Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)
• Lunch and snacks at the office