Founding Backend Engineer for AI Video Platform

True Talent Solutions Partners; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

True Talent Solutions Partners is seeking a founding backend engineer to design core systems powering AI video creation. You will lead distributed backend architecture and establish engineering standards while collaborating with researchers and designers to launch features and APIs.

Five to ten years of backend experience is expected, with strong TypeScript and AWS skills, and hands-on work with agentic AI or LLMs. This on-site role is based in San Francisco, CA.

Qualifications

• Five to ten years of backend software engineering experience.
• Experience building scalable backend and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with agentic systems or LLMs is required.
• Proficiency with TypeScript and AWS, including S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS, ECS, Docker, and FastAPI.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures and system design.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend systems powering AI video creation.
• Build infrastructure for agentic workflows and real-time data processing.
• Own distributed architecture with automated testing and observability.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to ship features and APIs.
• Write production-grade code and define engineering standards.
• Document decisions and define agent skills for a fast-moving team.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

TypeScript

AWS

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

S3

Lambda

RDS

SQS

ECS

Docker

FastAPI

Job description

True Talent Solutions Partners is seeking a founding backend engineer to design core systems powering AI video creation. You will lead distributed backend architecture and establish engineering standards while collaborating with researchers and designers to launch features and APIs.

Five to ten years of backend experience is expected, with strong TypeScript and AWS skills, and hands-on work with agentic AI or LLMs. This on-site role is based in San Francisco, CA.