Backend Software Engineer
Viggle AIGenerative AI company
Toronto, CanadaMid
Andreessen Horowitz
Two Small Fish Ventures
Alphabet
AI Futures Fund
Chapter One
Golden Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Develop and maintain scalable backend systems for AI video generation.
- •Viggle is building the next generation of AI-powered avatar and video generation.
- •We're hiring a backend engineer to own and evolve our core platform
- •a Go-based business API serving millions of creators, and a distributed Python GPU pipeline that turns reference images and driving videos into high-quality avatar renders at scale.
- •Key Responsibilities Architect and maintain highly scalable, distributed backend systems powering Viggle's global AI video generation platform across web and mobile clients Design and implement APIs that power video generation, character/asset management, the creator platform, and monetization (subscriptions, IAP, Stripe) Develop robust processing pipelines for ingesting user-uploaded videos and orchestrating GPU-heavy workloads (encoding, inpainting, rendering) in near real-time Productionize ML models from research to scale with our ML team, drive the technical vision for reliability, throughput, and cost efficiency across our GPU fleet
- •fast-fail coordination, resource reservation, credit safety, GPU utilization Requirements 3 years of professional backend engineering experience Excellent proficiency in Go OR Python, with a strong ability and willingness to ramp up on the other Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
- •worker coordination, queue-based pipelines, resource reservation, fault recovery Familiarity with message queues and event-driven architectures (Redis, RabbitMQ, Temporal, NATS, Kafka, or similar) Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration
- •Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices
Required skills
GoPythonFastAPIDockerKubernetesCI/CD
Nice-to-have skills
PyTorch
Domain expertise
ai
Benefits & perks
Dynamic startup culture, Attractive equity packages, Competitive salary, Comprehensive dental coverage, Complimentary lunch, dinner, snacks, Vibrant, fun office environment
Tech stack
GoPythonFastAPIGinRedisRabbitMQDockerKubernetesCI/CDPyTorch