Senior Backend Engineer

The role

You will design and own backend systems for high-throughput, asynchronous workloads. You will architect for scale and reliability while building and optimizing async pipelines.

What you will do

• Design and own backend systems that handle high-throughput, asynchronous workloads
• Architect for scale and reliability
• Build and optimize async pipelines
• Improve performance and cost at the infrastructure level
• Set technical direction and raise the engineering bar through review and mentorship

Required qualifications

• Strong backend experience (5+ years) with real ownership of production systems at scale
• Proven system design skills
• Hands-on experience with asynchronous pipelines, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, or similar), and distributed workers
• Comfort with high-concurrency, high-throughput environments
• Ability to work independently in a fast, low-process, bootstrapped environment

Nice to have

• Experience with Go (or willingness to work in it)
• Exposure to ML/AI infrastructure, GPU workloads, or media processing pipelines
• Track record contributing to open source

About the company

ImagineArt is a bootstrapped GenAI platform serving image and video generation at real scale to Fortune 500 clients.