Software Engineer, Backend
MirageGenerative Video company
New York, United StatesMid
Index Ventures
Kleiner Perkins
Andreessen Horowitz
Sequoia Capital
HubSpot Ventures
Adobe Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Build and own backend systems for an AI-native video platform.
- •Mirage is an AI-native video platform that intelligently orchestrates production and editing through natural language.
- •Backend engineers at Mirage work across product, platform, and machine learning, building the systems, services, APIs, and ML pipelines that power all product surfaces.
- •Key Responsibilities Design, build, and own backend systems end-to-end, including services, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure.
- •Solve complex technical challenges across distributed systems, scaling, concurrency, and performance.
- •Integrate and operate large generative AI models in production.
- •Instrument, experiment, and iterate in production to continuously improve system and product quality.
- •Design and operate core platform infrastructure.
- •Requirements 2+ years of professional industry experience.
- •A track record of shipping high-impact systems and/or products in production.
- •Exceptional problem-solving fundamentals and ability to learn.
- •Excellent engineering taste combined with a strong sense of practicality and time-management.
- •Able to operate effectively in an extremely fast-paced environment and scope and deliver projects end-to-end.
Required skills
MicroservicesLLMsPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGoRustNode.jsPostgreSQLDockerKubernetesCI/CDGit
Nice-to-have skills
TensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnOpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini APILangChainHugging FaceComputer VisionNLP
Domain expertise
aimediaproductivity
Benefits & perks
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, 401K with employer match, Commuter Benefits, Catered lunch multiple days per week, Dinner stipend every night if you're working late and want a bite!, Grubhub subscription, Health & Wellness Perks, Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month, Generous PTO policy
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGoRustNode.jsDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressRuby on Rails.NETASP.NETNestJSLaravelSymfonyGinEchoActixPhoenixMicroservicesTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnKerasOpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini APILangChain