Senior Backend Engineer - Scalable AI Workflows

Mixpeek; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mixpeek is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead critical backend initiatives for millions of creatives using ComfyUI, building distributed systems, data models for growth, and solving complex scaling challenges. Our stack is Python, Go, Kubernetes, and Postgres on the backend, but the emphasis is on ability to learn and ship, not on knowing every piece of tech today. Join a small, intense team in San Francisco with high ownership and meaningful products.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ownership to ship high-quality features.
• Ability to invent novel solutions for hard problems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and scaling.
• Experience building products with user-centric focus.

Responsibilities

• Ship features quickly from idea to production in days, not weeks.
• Deliver features impacting millions of users.
• Help shape our technical direction as we grow.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy reliable systems.
• Contribute to deployment and scalability improvements across the stack.

Skills

Ownership

Novel solutions

Distributed systems

User-focused product

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Go

Python

PostgreSQL

Job description

Mixpeek is seeking a senior backend engineer to lead critical backend initiatives for millions of creatives using ComfyUI, building distributed systems, data models for growth, and solving complex scaling challenges. Our stack is Python, Go, Kubernetes, and Postgres on the backend, but the emphasis is on ability to learn and ship, not on knowing every piece of tech today. Join a small, intense team in San Francisco with high ownership and meaningful products.