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 5 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI video company as a founding backend engineer. You will lead backend architecture and engineering practices while building systems that power generative video and agentic workflows.

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 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 high-quality code.
  • 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 work at early-stage or high-growth startups.
  • Industry experience building agentic systems and working with LLMs or generative AI for at least one year.
  • Strong experience with scalable backend and distributed systems, large-scale data processing, information retrieval, and asynchronous workflows.
  • Professional experience with TypeScript and AWS; familiarity with services such as S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS, and ECS is relevant.
  • Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and system design, applied to production backend systems.
  • Experience acting as a technical lead and raising engineering standards through code and technical guidance.
  • 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

Particular to this role

Generative AI

Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 125 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 126 open in Client Roles. 126 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 (73 of 126), TypeScript (47 of 126), LLM (46 of 126), React (43 of 126), Machine Learning (38 of 126), AWS (32 of 126), JavaScript (27 of 126)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted 7 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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