Software Engineer Backend

Mirage is an AI video company building creative tools for video, motion, and sound.

New York City, United States
About Mirage

Mirage develops AI-native video-creation products, including the Captions app and Tesseract runtime, alongside foundation models for expressive video generation.

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Candidate Availability

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About the Role

You will own backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure end-to-end. You will solve distributed-systems and performance challenges, deploy and scale generative AI models, improve systems through production experimentation, and operate platform integrations, storage, security, and internal APIs.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional industry experience
  • Production systems
  • Distributed systems
  • Scaling
  • Concurrency
  • Performance
  • Generative AI model
  • LLM
  • Generative media
  • API
  • Data pipeline
  • Infrastructure
  • Security

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own backend systems, services, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure
  • Solve distributed-systems, scaling, concurrency, and performance challenges
  • Deploy, serve, and scale generative AI models in production
  • Instrument, experiment, and iterate in production
  • Design and operate platform infrastructure, integrations, storage, security, and internal APIs

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401K with employer match
  • Commuter benefits
  • Catered lunch multiple days per week
  • Dinner stipend for late work
  • Grubhub subscription
  • Health and wellness perks
  • Multiple team offsites per year
  • Monthly team events
  • Generous PTO policy