Senior Backend Engineer / Architect

About the role:

• We're a bootstrapped GenAI platform serving image and video generation at real scale — Fortune 500 clients, $35M+ ARR
• We need a backend engineer who thinks in systems, not just services, owning architecture behind generation pipelines and inference orchestration

What you'll do:

• Design and own backend systems for high-throughput, asynchronous workloads (generation queues, worker orchestration, media processing)
• Architect for scale and reliability — make calls on data flow, service boundaries, and failure handling
• Build and optimize async pipelines: job queuing, retries, backpressure, dead-letter handling

What we're looking for:

• Strong backend experience (5+ years) with real ownership of production systems at scale
• Proven system design skills — defend architecture decisions with tradeoffs, not buzzwords
• Hands-on experience with async pipelines, message queues, and distributed workers