Software Engineer, Business Engineering

The role

A Business Engineer will turn operational bottlenecks into software including data models, APIs, and screens. You will own features through launch, adoption, and production support.

What you will do

• Turn growth team problems into useful features.
• Define a small first release and build it across backend and frontend.
• Own database schemas, query performance and safe migrations on a live database.
• Build third-party integrations that handle API quotas, rate limits, retries and webhooks.
• Make payment and messaging workflows safe to retry and keep an audit trail.
• Ship LLM features and measure quality, latency and cost per result.
• Own environments, releases, monitoring, security and access.
• Share on-call responsibility.
• Define success metrics, track adoption after launch and improve what you ship.

Required qualifications

• Production experience building and operating backend systems.
• Strong Python and full-stack delivery.
• Deep PostgreSQL knowledge.
• API security knowledge including authentication, object-level authorization and role isolation.
• Hands-on operations with Linux, containers, CI/CD, monitoring and debugging production from logs.
• High agency and ownership.
• Low ego.
• Energy for an intense pace.

Nice to have

• Influencer marketing, affiliate programs or creator payouts
• large-scale YouTube data within API quotas
• email outreach and deliverability
• LLM evaluations, prompt regression sets and cost tracking

Benefits

• Competitive base in USD
• equity
• relocation support
• ownership of the systems Higgsfield's growth runs on

About the company

Higgsfield's Growth team runs on an internal platform.