Founding Backend Lead for AI Video Infrastructure

True Talent Solutions Partners

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 225,000 - 275,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Job summary

True Talent Solutions Partners is seeking a hands-on software leader to join the founding engineering team for an early-stage AI video software startup. You will architect and build backend systems and AI infra powering new video experiences, while setting engineering standards and guiding best practices.

You will design scalable distributed systems, develop agentic workflows and video pipelines, and drive reliability with testing and observability.

Qualifications

Five to ten years of backend software experience, incl. startup environments.
Experience building scalable backend and distributed systems, data processing, and asynchronous workflows.
Industry experience with TypeScript and AWS services.
At least 12 months designing and building agentic systems, LLMs, or generative AI.
Experience as a technical lead, setting direction and coding standards.
Formal CS degree and fluent English communication.
Authorization to work without visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable backend systems for AI-powered video products.
Develop infrastructure for agentic workflows, video pipelines, and real-time data processing.
Own distributed systems architecture with automated testing and observability.
Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and designers to create features and APIs.
Set technical direction, write high‑quality code, and document decisions.