Backend Software Engineer, Product

The role

This person will build AI creation workflows, Cinema Studio collaboration, and community features. They will own features and bugs through release, define API contracts, and remove database and service bottlenecks.

What you will do

• Build AI creation workflows, Cinema Studio collaboration, and community features
• Own features and bugs through release and follow-up
• Define API contracts and coordinate frontend work
• Deliver responsive UX including live progress and failure recovery
• Remove database and service bottlenecks under high traffic
• Define success metrics, build dashboards and alerts, and track adoption and system health

Required qualifications

• Deep database expertise in data modeling, indexes, query plans, partitioning, transactions, and locking
• Strong architecture judgment regarding service boundaries, APIs, asynchronous workflows, caching, and failure handling
• Hands-on Kubernetes and CI/CD experience
• Track record of shipping and operating backend systems across multiple projects, including high-traffic workloads
• API security knowledge including authentication, object-level authorization, and tenant isolation
• Experience building or studying social networks and collaborative tools
• High agency and ownership
• Low ego
• Ambition and optimism
• Energy for an intense pace, shifting priorities, and urgent launches or production issues that can require work outside regular hours

Benefits

• Competitive base in USD
• equity
• relocation support
• ownership of product experiences

About the company

Higgsfield builds tools for AI creators including creative workflows, collaborative projects in Cinema Studio, and a community for sharing work.