True Talent Solutions Partners

Founding Backend Software Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$225,000 - $275,000 annually
Level
Senior
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 1 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join a small team building generative AI technology for video creation. As a founding backend engineer, you will shape core systems and technical practices while working closely with research, engineering, and design.

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 benchmarking, and end-to-end observability.
  • Partner with researchers, engineers, and designers to develop product features and APIs.
  • Set technical direction, write production code, establish engineering guidelines, and raise code quality across the team.
  • Document systems, define agent skills, and communicate technical decisions clearly.

What We're Looking For

  • 5 to 10 years of backend software engineering experience, including work at early-stage or high-growth startups.
  • Industry experience building scalable backend and distributed systems, including large-scale data processing, information retrieval, and asynchronous workflows.
  • At least 12 months of hands-on industry experience designing agentic systems and working with LLMs or generative AI.
  • Professional experience with TypeScript and AWS; experience with S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS, ECS, FastAPI, Docker, and CI/CD is relevant.
  • Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and system design, applied to backend engineering work.
  • Experience acting as a technical lead, setting direction and engineering standards while contributing code.
  • A formal degree and fluent written and spoken English.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $225,000 to $275,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.

What this role asks for

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 124 open in Client Roles. 124 were posted in the last 30 days, including 6 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (66 of 124), LLM (41 of 124), TypeScript (41 of 124), React (36 of 124), AWS (28 of 124), Machine Learning (26 of 124), JavaScript (25 of 124)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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Posting history

Reposted 3 times since 28 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

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