Backend Engineer

Description

Are you passionate about building scalable backend systems that power real-world products at scale? Do you enjoy designing clean architectures, owning core services, and working across data, content, and monetization domains?

Join Pixellot’s Content & Monetization Engineering Team, where you’ll help build the foundational services that power the company’s next generation of sports content and monetization products. This is a hands-on backend engineering role focused on designing, building, and maintaining scalable microservices and data-driven systems in production environments.

At Pixellot, we are revolutionizing sports production through AI-powered solutions that automatically capture, analyze, and transform sports events into personalized experiences for players, teams, leagues, and fans worldwide.

As a Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the infrastructure and services behind our content generation, highlights, metadata, and monetization platforms, directly impacting the company’s growth and future vision as a Data-as-a-Service company.

As part of your role, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
• Develop microservices using technologies such as NestJS and Python.
• Work on systems related to content generation, highlights, metadata processing, monetization flows, and integrations.
• Collaborate closely with AI researchers, data engineers, product managers, and frontend engineers.
• Take ownership of production systems, including observability, reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Participate in architectural decisions and help define engineering standards and best practices.
• Work with cloud-native technologies, asynchronous workflows, distributed systems, and modern AI-driven development methodologies.
• Contribute to the evolution of the company’s data and content infrastructure.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in backend development, building scalable production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Node.js (TypeScript), preferably NestJS, and experience with Python.
• Experience designing and developing microservices, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native environments.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Solid understanding of software architecture, performance, and scalability.
• Experience using AI-powered development tools as part of the development workflow.
• Strong ownership, problem-solving skills, and ability to work independently.
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Be part of a pioneering company transforming the way sports content is created and consumed.
• Build systems that directly impact millions of sports moments worldwide.
• Work with highly talented engineers, AI researchers, and product teams.
• Help shape the technical foundations of Pixellot’s next generation platform.
• Thrive in a culture that values ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Join the Team!

If you're excited about building scalable backend systems and want to help shape the future of sports content and monetization, we’d love to meet you!