Senior Backend Engineer

Hedra; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

401k

Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)

Lunch and snacks at the office

Job summary

Hedra is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build backend services for their creative products in San Francisco. The role involves deploying services in AWS and writing secure, scalable Python code for various tools including image and video creation.

Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience in backend engineering, with skills in Python, Kubernetes, and relational databases. Benefits include competitive compensation, healthcare, and an inviting office environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience building backend services.
• Experience developing scalable services using Python and related frameworks.
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices and testing approaches.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy backend services and APIs.
• Work with AWS infrastructure to implement processing logic.
• Collaborate with engineers and researchers to develop new technologies.

Skills

Python Development

Cloud Infrastructure (Kubernetes, EKS)

Relational Databases

Tools

FastAPI

Pydantic

Postgres

Redis

DynamoDB

AWS

Job description

Summary:

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy the backend services that power our creative brainstorming and creation products. You will work with web and video standards to power our suite of web-based image and video creation / editing tools.

You will also work on building and deploying backend services and APIs to our AWS infrastructure, write secure, stable, and scalable Python code, interface with our ground-breaking foundation model, and integrate with Postgres, Redis, S3, and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic.

You will work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology. We’re looking for full‑time hires in our San Francisco office.

Required Experience:

• Experience developing scalable services using Python, using frameworks such as FastAPI and Pydantic
• Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS
• Experience working with relational databases
• At least 5 years of professional experience building backend services

Nice to have:

• Experience building high‑availability services using CI/CD, full ranges of test validation approaches, monitoring and alerting
• Familiarity with authentication / authorization, utilizing standards such as oauth2, OIDC, and JWT
• Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD and dev‑containers
• Familiarity with AWS IAM, ALB/NLB, Route53, S3, Cloudflare
• Experience developing/scaling pipelines, event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka
• Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems
• Experience with k8s, Docker, especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on NVIDIA hardware

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation and equity
• 401k
• Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)
• Lunch and snacks at the office