Software Backend Engineer

Carrerlift; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,600,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Carrerlift is seeking a backend engineer to design and operate scalable media processing pipelines, exports, and editor workflows. You will build APIs coordinating frontend, workers, storage, and databases.

Role emphasizes distributed state, queues, asynchronous tasks, and robust error handling for long-running jobs; translate product requirements into resilient backend architecture. Proficiency in TypeScript/Go/Python/Rust and hands-on FFmpeg/GStreamer knowledge are valued.

Qualifications

• Proven track record owning and supporting production backend systems through product iterations and scaling.
• Strong mental model of distributed state, task queues, asynchronous workers, file handling, and inter-service contracts.
• Ability to translate product requirements—such as export speed improvements or responsive upload experiences—into sound backend architecture.
• Deep knowledge of media: container formats, compression standards, machine learning model output, processing performance, and visual fidelity.

Responsibilities

• Building reliable pipelines for media uploads, transcoding, analysis, and export at scale.
• Designing state machines and recovery logic for jobs that span minutes or hours.
• Optimizing media workflows for speed and resource efficiency.
• Writing clear, testable code that other engineers can confidently maintain and extend.

Skills

Distributed systems

Task queues

Asynchronous workers

Media processing

TypeScript

Go

Python

Rust

FFmpeg

GStreamer

Tools

FFmpeg

GStreamer

ProRes

H.264

H.265

DNx

Job description

Batch: 2020/2021/2022/2023/2024/2025.

About the role:

• - Design and operate backend infrastructure handling exports, proxy generation, media preparation, analysis, and agent-driven editing workflows
• - Build and maintain APIs that coordinate communication between frontend, background workers, file storage, and database layers
• - Develop systems for long-duration media operations including ingestion, delivery, processing queues, progress tracking, and failure handling
• - Scale backend architecture to remain manageable and performant as project volume, file sizes, and user activity increase
• - Tackle complex technical challenges in media systems and distributed backend design

What we're looking for:

• - Proven track record owning and supporting production backend systems through product iterations and scaling
• - Strong mental model of distributed state, task queues, asynchronous workers, file handling, and inter-service contracts
• - Ability to translate product requirements—such as export speed improvements or responsive upload experiences—into sound backend architecture
• - Deep knowledge of media: container formats, compression standards, machine learning model output, processing performance, and visual fidelity
• - Comfort moving between languages; you write TypeScript, Go, Rust, Python, or whatever technology solves the problem best
• - Experience with FFmpeg or GStreamer libraries, or detailed knowledge of codec internals including ProRes, H.264, H.265, BRAW, R3D, DNx, and related formats (a plus)

What you'll work on:

• - Building reliable pipelines for media uploads, transcoding, analysis, and export at scale
• - Designing state machines and recovery logic for jobs that span minutes or hours
• - Optimizing media workflows for speed and resource efficiency
• - Writing clear, testable code that other engineers can confidently maintain and extend