Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Powered Clips, Scalable Systems

Restream; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Hardware and tooling provided

Startup culture with flat structure

Job summary

Restream is seeking a senior backend engineer to join a small, ownership-driven team building AI-powered clips for a live-streaming platform. You will ship reliable services with a focus on simplicity, durability, and rapid iteration, owning critical systems end-to-end.

You will design APIs, tackle scaling challenges, and collaborate across languages in a cloud-first environment with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. Equity and strong product ownership are on offer.

Qualifications

• Must ship high-quality projects quickly.
• Deep expertise in at least one programming language.
• Strong database design across relational and NoSQL systems (Scylla, Redis).
• Hands-on experience creating, testing, consuming and supporting APIs for web services.
• Experience with AWS, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes and CD across multi-language stacks.
• Basic front-end skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication; autonomous and collaborative.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain features in web services powering the product.
• Design and implement backend APIs and business logic to support features.
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback.
• Track emerging technologies and surface opportunities in the environment.
• Ensure redundancy and resilience of production infrastructure.

Skills

Entrepreneurial mindset

General-purpose programming

Database design (Relational/NoSQL)

APIs for web services

AWS, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, CD

Front-end basics

Communication & collaboration

Tools

Scylla

Redis

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Restream is seeking a senior backend engineer to join a small, ownership-driven team building AI-powered clips for a live-streaming platform. You will ship reliable services with a focus on simplicity, durability, and rapid iteration, owning critical systems end-to-end.

You will design APIs, tackle scaling challenges, and collaborate across languages in a cloud-first environment with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes. Equity and strong product ownership are on offer.