{"id":1397811,"url":"https://alion.io/job/imagineart-senior-backend-engineer","title":"Senior Backend Engineer","company":{"id":691853,"name":"ImagineArt","domain":"imagine.art","url":"https://alion.io/company/imagine-5","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":95,"open_postings":8,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":75,"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Islamabad, Pakistan"],"countries":["PK"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":33000,"max_usd":90000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":4821},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"RabbitMQ","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub","optional":true},{"name":"Go","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-28T08:22:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-28","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T02:22:55Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Location: Islamabad, Pakistan\nEmployment Type: Full-time\nAbout the role\nWe're a bootstrapped GenAI platform serving image and video generation at real scale - Fortune 500 clients, $35M+ ARR, and traffic that doesn't wait for you to catch up. We need a backend engineer who thinks in systems, not just services. You'll own the architecture behind our generation pipelines, inference orchestration, and the infrastructure that keeps latency low while volume climbs.\nThis is a hands-on architect role. You will design and write code, not just draw diagrams.\nWhat you'll do\nDesign and own backend systems that handle high-throughput, asynchronous workloads (generation queues, worker orchestration, media processing)\n\nArchitect for scale and reliability - you'll make the calls on data flow, service boundaries, and failure handling\n\nBuild and optimize async pipelines: job queuing, retries, backpressure, dead-letter handling, and everything that keeps millions of requests moving\n\nImprove performance and cost at the infrastructure level - inference is expensive, and efficiency is a product feature here\n\nSet technical direction and raise the engineering bar for the team through review and mentorship\n\nWhat we're looking for\nStrong backend experience (5+ years) with real ownership of production systems at scale\n\nProven system design skills - you can defend your architecture decisions with tradeoffs, not buzzwords\n\nHands-on experience with asynchronous pipelines, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, or similar), and distributed workers\n\nComfort with high-concurrency, high-throughput environments\n\nAbility to work independently in a fast, low-process, bootstrapped environment\n\nNice to have\nExperience with Go (or willingness to work in it - we lean on Go for backend)\n\nExposure to ML/AI infrastructure, GPU workloads, or media processing pipelines\n\nTrack record contributing to open source (we look at GitHub signal)\n\nWhy ImagineArt\nReal revenue, real users, no VC treadmill - decisions are made by engineers and founders, fast\n\nGenuinely hard technical problems at the intersection of AI and scale\n\nFully remote, full-time","description_format":"text","description_chars":2130,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Pakistan","iso":"PK","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Media & Entertainment","Film Production"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T14:11:31Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":75,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/imagineart-senior-backend-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/imagineart-senior-backend-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T04:42:27Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4211,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":789,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}