Software Engineer Backend
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Mirage is an AI video company building creative tools for video, motion, and sound.
New York City, United States
Funding history
About Mirage
Mirage develops AI-native video-creation products, including the Captions app and Tesseract runtime, alongside foundation models for expressive video generation.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, build, and own backend systems, services, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure. You will solve distributed-systems, scaling, concurrency, and performance challenges; deploy and scale generative AI models; improve production quality through instrumentation and experimentation; and operate platform integrations, storage, security, and internal APIs.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional industry experience
- Track record of shipping high-impact systems or products in production
- Problem-solving ability
- Engineering judgment
- Time management
- Ability to scope and deliver projects end-to-end in a fast-paced environment
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 to improve system and product quality
- Design and operate platform infrastructure, third-party integrations, storage systems, 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 and monthly team events
- Generous PTO policy
