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Software Engineer, Backend

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $180,000–$180,000🗓 2026-09-25 → 2026-09-28

Core

Build and scale backend systems for a modern AI-powered content creation platform serving millions of users.

Role type

Senior IC backend software engineer (distributed systems)

Builds

Scalable backend APIs, real-time collaborative editing features, and AI content generation services

Domain

SaaS / AI-powered content creation

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

TypeScript, Node.js, distributed systems, PostgreSQL, Redis, API design, system scaling

Preferred skills

Websockets, streaming, inference workload scaling

Technologies

React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis

Responsibilities

Scale backend systems to hundreds of millions of users; Build and optimize APIs for real-time collaboration and AI generation; Design distributed systems for high reliability; Architect solutions for data consistency and query optimization; Collaborate with frontend and product teams to ship features

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