True Talent Solutions Partners

Founding Backend Software Engineer

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

Open. First seen 3 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI video company as a founding backend engineer, helping build the infrastructure behind its generative video products. You will provide technical leadership on a small engineering team and shape scalable systems and engineering practices.

What You'll Do

  • Design and build scalable backend systems for AI-powered video creation.
  • Develop 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 and engineering standards while contributing code and clear documentation.

What We're Looking For

  • Five to ten years of backend software engineering experience, including work at early-stage or high-growth startups.
  • Industry experience designing and building agentic systems, LLMs, or generative AI for at least 12 months.
  • Experience building scalable backend and distributed systems, including large-scale data processing, information retrieval, and asynchronous workflows.
  • Professional experience with TypeScript and AWS; familiarity with tools such as S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS, ECS, FastAPI, Docker, and CI/CD.
  • Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and system design, with experience applying them in backend engineering.
  • Experience leading technical work, setting direction and code standards, and communicating decisions clearly.
  • A formal degree and fluent English communication skills.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $225,000 to $275,000 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 125 open in Client Roles. 125 were posted in the last 30 days, including 7 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (63 of 125), LLM (48 of 125), TypeScript (44 of 125), React (39 of 125), Machine Learning (31 of 125), JavaScript (27 of 125), AWS (26 of 125)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.

Posting history

Reposted 5 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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