Senior Software Engineer, Media Creation

🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $190,000–$190,000🗓 2026-08-25 → 2026-09-26

Core

Designing backend architecture for media creation tools that enable users to capture, edit, and publish video and image content.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Builds

Backend infrastructure and APIs for media creation and processing pipelines.

Domain

Social Media / Media Processing

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Distributed systems, Go/Python/Java/C++, GraphQL, REST, gRPC, Redis, SQL, Media frameworks (FFMPEG/GPAC)

Preferred skills

Product thinking, Asynchronous media processing, Event-driven microservices, Background data fetching

Technologies

Go, Python, Redis, GraphQL, FFMPEG, GPAC

Responsibilities

Define backend architecture for media tools, build fast maintainable APIs, contribute to full development cycle, mentor junior engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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