Software Engineer, Business Engineering
HiggsfieldGenerative AI company
Almaty, KazakhstanMid
Accel
Menlo Ventures
GFT Ventures
AI Capital Partners
BroadLight Capital
NextEquity Partners
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Build and operate internal software for Higgsfield's Growth team, turning operational bottlenecks into features.
- •Almaty, Kazakhstan
- •Growth Engineering Why this role exists Higgsfield's Growth team runs on an internal platform.
- •We need a Business Engineer to turn operational bottlenecks into software, from the data model and API to the screens the team uses every day.
- •You own features through launch, adoption and production support.
- •What you'll actually do Turn growth team problems into useful features.
- •Define a small first release and build it across backend and frontend.
- •Own database schemas, query performance and safe migrations on a live database.
- •Build third-party integrations that handle API quotas, rate limits, retries and webhooks.
- •Make payment and messaging workflows safe to retry, without duplicate payouts or sends, and keep an audit trail.
- •Ship LLM features and measure quality, latency and cost per result.
- •Own environments, releases, monitoring, security and access.
- •Share on-call responsibility.
- •Define success metrics, track adoption after launch and improve what you ship.
- •Must-haves Production experience.
- •You've built and operated backend systems and can explain your decisions, personal contribution and results.
- •Strong Python and full-stack delivery.
- •You build backend services and React screens when a feature needs them.
- •Deep PostgreSQL knowledge.
- •Data modeling, query plans, indexes, transactions, locking and migrations on live databases.
- •Authentication, object-level authorization and role isolation.
- •You prevent IDOR on reads and writes and test access as different users.
- •Hands-on operations.
- •Linux, containers, CI/CD, monitoring and debugging production from logs.
- •You can run what you build.
- •High agency and ownership.
- •You find worthwhile problems, remove blockers and follow through without waiting for assignments.
- •You welcome direct feedback, admit mistakes and change your mind with evidence.
- •Energy for an intense pace.
- •The team ships daily, priorities shift and urgent production issues can need you outside regular hours.
- •Our tech stack Languages: Python and TypeScript.
- •Backend: Python and Node.js services, REST APIs, background workers and scheduled jobs.
- •Frontend: React with server-side rendering.
- •Data: PostgreSQL and S3-compatible object storage.
- •Infrastructure: Linux, Docker and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
- •AI: LLM APIs from major providers.
- •Quality: Static typing, linters and automated tests in both languages.
- •Bonus experience: Influencer marketing, affiliate programs or creator payouts; large-scale YouTube data within API quotas; email outreach and deliverability; LLM evaluations, prompt regression sets and cost tracking.
- •Interview process Recruiter screen: role expectations, logistics and fit.
- •Technical interview: a difficult system you shipped, what you personally decided and built, and how your work made the team more capable without leaving it dependent on you.
- •Practical task: a real problem from our backlog, under NDA.
- •You design the data model and API, write the core of it and explain your trade-offs.
- •Product interview: turn a growth team problem into a small first release, decide what to leave out and explain how feedback would change it.
- •What we offer Competitive base in USD, equity, relocation support, and ownership of the systems Higgsfield's growth runs on.
Required skills
PythonReactPostgreSQLSQLLinuxDockerGitHub ActionsREST APILLMs
Nice-to-have skills
TypeScriptNode.jsS3
Benefits & perks
equity, relocation support
Tech stack
PythonTypeScriptReactNode.jsREST APIPostgreSQLS3LinuxDockerGitHub ActionsLLMsSQL