Software Engineer, Backend

The role

You will design, build, and own backend systems including services, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure. You will work across product, platform, and machine learning to power product surfaces.

What you will do

• Design, build, and own backend systems end-to-end
• Solve complex technical challenges across distributed systems, scaling, concurrency, and performance
• Integrate and operate large generative AI models in production
• Instrument, experiment, and iterate in production
• Design and operate core platform infrastructure

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional industry experience
• A track record of shipping high-impact systems and/or products in production
• Exceptional problem solving fundamentals and ability to learn
• Excellent engineering taste combined with a strong sense of practicality and time-management
• Able to operate effectively in an extremely fast-paced environment
• Able to scope and deliver projects end-to-end

Nice to have

• Worked extensively with LLMs, generative media models, and have a pulse on where the technology is going
• Grounded, collaborative, and willing to do whatever it takes to help the team win
• Been a startup founder or an early engineer at one

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401K with employer match
• Commuter Benefits
• Catered lunch multiple days per week
• Dinner stipend every night if you're working late
• Grubhub subscription
• Health & Wellness Perks
• Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month
• Generous PTO policy

About the company

Mirage is an AI video company focused on making creation dramatically easier. The team builds multimodal agents, rendering engines, and generative video models for products like Captions and Tesseract.