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Backend Engineer - Applied AI
FLORAGenerative AI company
New York, United StatesSenior
Redpoint Ventures
Menlo Ventures
Hanabi Capital
Long Journey
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Company Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Backend Engineer to build and scale FLORA's multi-modal AI engine infrastructure.
- •FLORA is building the first creative operating system, an infinite canvas for generative computing.
- •This role focuses on scaling the infrastructure behind FLORA's multi-modal AI engine, ensuring real-time performance for complex creative workflows.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and own a centralized execution engine for routing generative tools and models.
- •Optimize backend latency and data overhead by implementing caching and in-memory stores.
- •Build robust failure handling mechanisms for external APIs and model integrations.
- •Scale the multi-modal pipeline to support millions of users processing text, image, and video.
- •Requirements 3+ years in backend infrastructure, platform engineering, or distributed systems.
- •Experience building execution layers, graphs, state machines, or routing services.
- •Proven ability to identify and resolve database bottlenecks.
- •Comfort with multi-modal infrastructure for text, image, and video.
- •Familiarity with TypeScript and serverless/edge runtimes.
Required skills
TypeScriptNode.jsPythonREST APIMicroservicesCI/CDDockerKubernetes
Nice-to-have skills
GraphQLPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchAWSWebSockets
Domain expertise
aideveloper-toolsproductivity
Tech stack
TypeScriptNode.jsREST APIGraphQLPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDPython
