Software Engineer (Backend)

Join Mirage, an AI-native video platform revolutionizing video production and editing. As a Backend Software Engineer, you'll tackle complex technical challenges, design and build backend systems, and integrate large generative AI models. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving intricate problems while staying connected to product and user outcomes. Enjoy comprehensive benefits, team off-sites, and the opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of creative expression.

• Design, build, and own backend systems end-to-end, including services, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure that power our products.
• Solve complex technical challenges across distributed systems, scaling, concurrency, and performance.
• Integrate and operate large generative AI models in production—deploying, serving, and scaling systems that combine internal research and external capabilities to unlock new product experiences.
• Excellent engineering taste combined with a strong sense of practicality and time-management
• You are grounded, collaborative, and willing to do whatever it takes to help the team win
• A track record of shipping high‑impact systems and/or products in production
• 2+ years of professional industry experience
• You have worked extensively with LLMs, generative media models, and have a pulse on where the technology is going
• Able to operate effectively in an extremely fast-paced environment as well as scope and deliver projects end-to-end
• Exceptional problem solving fundamentals and ability to learn
• You have been a startup founder or an early engineer at one