Founding Backend Software Engineer

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

About the Role

Join a small, high-caliber team building AI-powered video technology. As a founding backend engineer, you will lead the design of core systems and set a high bar for technical quality as the product and engineering team grow.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop scalable backend systems that power AI video creation.

• Build infrastructure for agentic workflows, video generation pipelines, reinforcement learning loops, and real-time data processing.

• Own distributed systems architecture and improve reliability through automated testing, performance benchmarking, and end-to-end observability.

• Partner with researchers, engineers, and designers to develop product features and APIs.

• Write production-quality code, set technical direction and engineering guidelines, and raise team standards.

• Document technical decisions and define agent skills for a fast-moving engineering team.

What We're Looking For

• Five to ten years of backend software engineering experience, including work at a startup or high-growth company.

• Industry experience building scalable backend systems, distributed systems, large-scale data processing, information retrieval, and asynchronous workflows.

• At least 12 months of hands-on industry experience designing agentic systems or working with LLMs and generative AI.

• Professional experience with TypeScript and AWS; experience with S3, Lambda, RDS, SQS, ECS, FastAPI, Docker, and CI/CD is relevant.

• Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and system design, applied in professional backend engineering work.

• Experience acting as a technical lead, setting direction and code standards while contributing code.

• A formal degree and fluency in English.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $225,000 to $275,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site, five days a week in San Francisco, California.