Role overview

Senior Backend Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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What you'll do

  • Design and own backend systems that handle high-throughput, asynchronous workloads (generation queues, worker orchestration, media processing)
  • Architect for scale and reliability — you'll make the calls on data flow, service boundaries, and failure handling
  • Build and optimize async pipelines: job queuing, retries, backpressure, dead-letter handling, and everything that keeps millions of requests moving
  • Improve performance and cost at the infrastructure level — inference is expensive, and efficiency is a product feature here
  • Set technical direction and raise the engineering bar for the team through review and mentorship

What we're looking for

  • Strong backend experience (5+ years) with real ownership of production systems at scale
  • Proven system design skills — you can defend your architecture decisions with tradeoffs, not buzzwords
  • 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 haves

  • Experience with Go (or willingness to work in it — we lean on Go for backend)
  • Exposure to ML/AI infrastructure, GPU workloads, or media processing pipelines
  • Track record contributing to open source (we look at GitHub signal)

Why ImagineArt

  • Real revenue, real users, no VC treadmill — decisions are made by engineers and founders, fast
  • Genuinely hard technical problems at the intersection of AI and scale
  • Fully remote, full-time
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