Backend Engineer

The role: Lead engineer for the development of a robust, scalable backend and a mobile app for the platform. What you'd ownThe backend. The API, the data model, and the pipeline that turns a day of uploads into a film, running on AWS. Our mobile app is Expo and React Native against a Kotlin and Spring Boot API. The stack is flexible for the right backend engineer. A strong backend, and the right person to build it, matters more than staying in the current language.

Required experience: Has built an enterprise-level backend, or worked on an enterprise-level backend team. Has built a functional app before and can show it. AWS and cloud computing experience. Ideally end-to-end MLOps experience. You will be handling LLM API integration at scale, which is genuinely hard to do well. Experience with big datasets, ideally adjacent to high-volume image or video processing and production.

Preferred qualifications: Ideal candidate takes initiative, plans ahead, is comfortable owning a large project, works quickly, is self-directed, and brings their own vision they can execute on. Ideally also familiar with Kotlin and Spring Boot. October 10, 2026. We are actively hiring for this role. TermsWorking directly with the Founder/CEO and the founding team at a fast-paced seed-stage startup that already has traction in a growing industry.