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ABOUT THE COMPANYDizzaract is a product-driven company operating at the intersection of gaming, digital platforms, and AI. We build and scale multiple products, including FAR Labs & Gamed - each exploring a different space, yet united by a shared approach: moving fast, staying curious, and focusing on things that people actually use.\nWe operate as a collaborative, non-hierarchical team where ideas are valued based on their impact, not their origin, and where AI is embedded across everything we build, from infrastructure to product decisions.\n02. ABOUT THE ROLE\nFAR Labs is building a distributed inference platform designed to serve large language models efficiently across diverse hardware. Serving quality - latency, throughput, memory efficiency, cost, and model quality - sits at the core of the product.\nWe are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale the backend systems powering FAR Labs products and platforms.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role with significant technical ownership. You will work across APIs, distributed services, data systems, authentication, real-time communication, integrations, and production infrastructure.\nYou will collaborate closely with AI, infrastructure, frontend, and product engineers to turn complex technical requirements into reliable production systems.\nWe are looking for someone who goes beyond implementing tickets - someone who understands the broader system, makes thoughtful architectural decisions, identifies technical risks, and takes responsibility for what happens after the code reaches production.\n03. WHAT YOU'LL OWN\nBackend Architecture & Development\nDesign, build, and maintain production backend services primarily using Go, alongside TypeScript/Node.js and Python where appropriate.\nOwn backend features from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, and production support.\nDesign systems that remain maintainable, reliable, and scalable as traffic and product complexity grow.\nMake pragmatic architectural decisions and continuously improve existing services.\nIdentify technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks before they become larger problems.\nAPIs & Service CommunicationDesign and maintain APIs and service interfaces using REST, gRPC, SSE, and WebSockets.\nBuild reliable communication between internal services and external-facing products.\nDesign APIs with clear contracts, appropriate versioning, error handling, and backwards compatibility.\nBuild real-time and streaming functionality where required.\nIntegrate backend services with AI/inference systems and other internal platform components.\nData & StorageDesign and optimize data models using PostgreSQL.\nWork with Redis and Valkey for caching, state management, and high-performance workloads.\nBuild integrations with S3-compatible object storage and Cloudflare R2.\nImprove query performance, caching strategies, data consistency, and reliability.\nMake appropriate architectural decisions around persistent and transient data.\nAuthentication & SecurityBuild and maintain secure authentication and authorization flows using Auth0 and JWT.\nApply secure backend development practices across APIs, services, data access, and integrations.\nDesign appropriate access-control mechanisms for internal and external services.\nConsider security as part of system design rather than an afterthought.\nIntegrations & Product InfrastructureBuild reliable integrations with external platforms and third-party services.\nImplement and maintain payment functionality using Stripe where relevant.\nDesign resilient integration patterns with appropriate retries, idempotency, validation, and failure handling.\nSupport backend functionality required by FAR Labs products and developer-facing services.\nPerformance & ReliabilityProfile and optimize backend services for latency, throughput, resource utilization, and reliability.\nDesign services that handle failures gracefully and remain stable under load.\nImplement appropriate caching, concurrency, rate limiting, retries, and timeout strategies.\nDebug complex production issues across application, database, networking, and infrastructure layers.\nPartner with SRE/infrastructure engineers to improve production reliability.\nTesting & DeliveryBuild automated tests using Go testing tools, pytest, Supertest, Testcontainers, and other appropriate frameworks.\nMaintain high standards around code quality, testing, reviews, and production readiness.\nWork with GitLab CI/CD to automate testing and delivery.\nContribute to deployment and release practices that enable fast, reliable engineering.\nEnsure critical backend functionality has meaningful automated test coverage.\nObservability & Production OwnershipBuild services with observability in mind, including meaningful logs, metrics, traces, and health checks.\nWork with Prometheus and Grafana as FAR Labs expands its observability stack.\nMonitor production behaviour and use operational data to improve systems.\nParticipate in incident investigation and root cause analysis.\nTake ownership of production issues involving the services you build.\nEngineering CollaborationWork closely with AI/ML, SRE, frontend, product, and other backend engineers.\nParticipate in architecture discussions, technical planning, and code reviews.\nChallenge technical decisions constructively and propose better approaches where appropriate.\nShare knowledge and help raise engineering standards across the team.\nContribute to technical documentation and maintain clear system knowledge.\n04. REQUIREMENTS\n5+ years of professional backend engineering experience building production systems.\nStrong commercial experience with Go.\nExperience with TypeScript/Node.js and/or Python in backend environments.\nStrong understanding of backend architecture, APIs, and distributed systems.\nHands-on experience designing and building REST and/or gRPC APIs.\nExperience with real-time or streaming communication using technologies such as WebSockets or SSE.\nStrong experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, and transactions.\nExperience with Redis, Valkey, or similar in-memory data stores.\nStrong understanding of concurrency, networking, caching, asynchronous processing, and service-to-service communication.\nExperience building authentication and authorization systems using JWT, Auth0, or comparable technologies.\nExperience with Docker and AWS-based production environments.\nExperience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.\nStrong understanding of production reliability, monitoring, debugging, and performance optimization.\nAbility to make technical decisions independently and explain the reasoning behind them.\nStrong ownership mindset and ability to work effectively in a fast-moving engineering environment.\n05. NICE TO HAVE\nExperience building backend systems for AI/ML products or infrastructure.\nExperience integrating backend platforms with model-serving or inference systems.\nExperience operating high-throughput or latency-sensitive services.\nExperience with large-scale distributed systems.\nExperience with S3-compatible storage or Cloudflare R2.\nExperience with Stripe or other payment infrastructure.\nExperience with Prometheus and Grafana.\nExperience designing developer-facing APIs, platforms, or infrastructure products.\n06. 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