Founding Backend Software Engineer
- Salary
- $225,000 - $275,000 annually
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
- Visa
- Not offered
Open. First seen 30 October 2026.
About the role
About the Role
Join a small team building generative AI video technology as its founding backend engineer. You will lead backend engineering and shape the infrastructure and standards that support the product.
What You'll Do
- Design and develop scalable backend systems for AI-powered video creation.
- Build infrastructure for agentic workflows, video generation pipelines, reinforcement learning loops, and real-time data processing.
- Own distributed systems architecture and improve reliability through automated testing, performance benchmarks, and end-to-end observability.
- Partner with research, engineering, and design teammates to develop product features and APIs.
- Write production code, set engineering guidelines, and establish technical direction and standards.
- Document systems, define agent skills, and communicate technical decisions clearly.
What We're Looking For
- Five to ten years of backend software engineering experience, including experience at early-stage or high-growth startups.
- Industry experience building agentic systems and working with LLMs or generative AI for at least 12 months.
- Hands-on experience with TypeScript and AWS.
- Experience with scalable backend and distributed systems, large-scale data processing, information retrieval, and asynchronous workflows.
- Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and system design, applied in professional backend engineering work.
- Experience leading technically through code, engineering guidelines, and team standards.
- A formal degree and professional fluency in English.
- Work authorization that does not require visa sponsorship.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $225,000 to $275,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, United States, five days per week.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Generative AI · Test Automation
Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 124 open postings.
Standard for backend roles
AWS
Common in backend postings at any company.
Compared with True Talent Solutions Partners's other open jobs.
The team: Client Roles
This role is one of 125 open in Client Roles. 125 were posted in the last 30 days, including 5 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (70 of 125), LLM (44 of 125), TypeScript (44 of 125), Machine Learning (36 of 125), React (36 of 125), AWS (28 of 125), JavaScript (24 of 125)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
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- Electrical & Computer Engineer posted Oct 30
- Senior Full Stack Software Engineer posted Oct 30
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Operate posted Oct 30
- Founding AI Agent Engineer posted Oct 30
- Data Engineer, Data Product posted Oct 30
- Mid/Senior Full Stack AI Engineer posted Oct 30
- Engineering Lead posted Oct 30
- Applied AI Engineer posted Oct 30
- Director of Engineering, Product posted Oct 30
- Robotics Software Engineer posted Oct 30
- Senior Product Manager, Staffing and AI Agents posted Oct 30
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 30
- Member of Technical Staff, ML Systems posted Oct 30
- Research Engineer, Evals posted Oct 30
- Software Engineer posted Oct 30
- Senior Solutions Engineer, Digital Native and Mid-Market posted Oct 30
- Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Oct 30
- Lead Product Engineer posted Oct 30
- Senior Software Engineer, Design posted Oct 30
- Member of Technical Staff, Full Stack posted Oct 30
- Mechanical Design Engineer posted Oct 30
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer posted Oct 30
- Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure posted Oct 30
- Senior Software Engineer, Customer Studio Backend posted Oct 30
- Founding Member of Technical Staff, Markets posted Oct 30
- Technical Product Manager posted Oct 30
- Founding Software Engineer posted Oct 30
- Product Engineer, Scrape posted Oct 30
- Solutions Engineer posted Oct 30
- Electrical Engineer posted Oct 30
- Senior Security Engineer posted Oct 30
- Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core) posted Oct 29
- Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI and Agents posted Oct 29
- Principal Software Engineer, Perception posted Oct 29
- Lead Software Engineer, Platform posted Oct 29
- Senior Software Engineer posted Oct 29
- Member of Technical Staff, AI Agents posted Oct 29
- Backend Infrastructure Engineer, Anti-Bot posted Oct 29
- Lead Platform Engineer posted Oct 29
- Technical Product Manager posted Oct 29
- Senior Control Electronics Engineer posted Oct 29
- Principal Analog/Mixed Signal Engineer posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer posted Oct 29
- Fullstack Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 29
- Frontend Engineer posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed AI Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding ML Researcher posted Oct 29
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Member of Technical Staff, Compiler posted Oct 29
- Senior Platform Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding AI Engineer posted Oct 29
- AI Scheduler posted Oct 29
- Product Manager, Supply Chain posted Oct 29
- Founding Full-Stack Engineer posted Oct 29
- Mid-Senior Product Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 29
- Product Manager, Product Growth posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer, Full Stack posted Oct 29
- Senior Software Engineer, Core Systems posted Oct 29
- Founding Full-Stack Engineer posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed Product Manager posted Oct 29
- Founding Senior Engineer posted Oct 29
- Product Engineer posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Research Engineer, Robot Learning posted Oct 29
- Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 29
- Senior Platform Security Engineer posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer, Mid-Level to Staff+ posted Oct 29
- Senior Security Engineer posted Oct 29
- Head of Software Architecture, Embodied AI Platform posted Oct 29
- AI Solutions Consultant posted Oct 29
- Agent Deployment Engineer posted Oct 29
- Lead AI Engineer posted Oct 29
- Member of Technical Staff, Applied ML posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 29
- Member of Technical Staff, Applied Researcher posted Oct 29
- Agent Product Engineer posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Product Engineer, AI posted Oct 29
- Senior Software Engineer, Backend posted Oct 29
- Sales Engineer posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer, Applied AI posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Product Lead posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer, C++ Systems posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Staff Product Manager posted Oct 29
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Oct 28
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Product Manager posted Oct 28
- Member of Technical Staff, Agent Platform posted Oct 28
- Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Oct 28
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Tactical Edge posted Oct 28
- Software Engineer, RL Environments posted Oct 28
- Founding Backend & Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Reinforcement Learning Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Quantitative Developer posted Oct 28
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Engineering Manager posted Oct 28
- Full-Stack Software Engineer posted Oct 28
- Software Engineer, Security posted Oct 28
- Founding Product Designer posted Oct 28
- Agent Deployment Engineer posted Oct 28
- Engineering Manager, Agents posted Oct 28
- Security Lead posted Oct 28
- Founding Fullstack Engineer posted Oct 28
- Lead Platform Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Product Designer posted Oct 28
- Founding PLM Solutions Engineer posted Oct 27
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 27
- Software Engineer posted Oct 27
- Design Engineer posted Oct 27
- Chief Product Officer posted Oct 27
- Research Crawling Engineer posted Oct 27
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer posted Oct 27
- Software Engineer, AI Agents posted Oct 24
From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.
Posting history
Reposted once since 28 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.
- 30 October 2026 – open (this posting)
- 29 October 2026 – closed 30 October 2026
- 28 October 2026 – closed 29 October 2026
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