# Founding Backend Software Engineer

About the Role Join a small engineering team at an early-stage AI video company as its founding backend engineer. You will lead the design of core backend infrastructure for agentic workflows and video generation, helping set technical direction and engineering standards as the product develops. What You'll Do Design and build scalable backend systems for AI-powered video products. Develop infrastructure for agentic workflows, video generation pipelines, reinforcement learning loops, and real-time data processing. Own distributed systems architecture and improve reliability through automated testing, performance benchmarking, and end-to-end observability. Work with research, engineering, and design teammates to deliver product features and APIs. Write production-quality code, establish engineering guidelines, document technical decisions, and raise team standards. Define agent skills and communicate technical decisions clearly in a fast-moving, in-person environment. What We're Looking For Five to ten years of backend software engineering experience, including experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup. Professional experience building scalable backend and distribut

- **Id**: 3578382
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/true-talent-solutions-partners-founding-backend-software-engineer-7>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-31T20:44:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-31
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T20:19:23Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-09T20:19:23Z
- **Days open**: 8
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- **Description chars**: 1945
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4415660
- **Name**: True Talent Solutions Partners
- **Domain**: truetalentsolutionspartners.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/true-talent-solutions-partners>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 225000
- **Max**: 275000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 275000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-31T23:59:52Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-09T20:19:23Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 87; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 87 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 275000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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