Senior Backend Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer you will design build and deploy the backend services that power our creative brainstorming and creation products. You will work with web and video standards to power our suite of web-based image and video creation / editing tools.

You will also work on building and deploying backend services and APIs to our AWS infrastructure write secure stable and scalable Python code interface with our ground-breaking foundation model and integrate with Postgres Redis S3 and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic.

You will work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology. We’re looking for full-time hires in our San Francisco office.

• Experience developing scalable services using Python using frameworks such as FastAPI and Pydantic

• Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS

• Experience working with relational databases

• At least 5 years of professional experience building backend services

• Experience building high availability services using CI/CD full ranges of test validation approaches monitoring and alerting

• Familiarity with authentication / authorization utilizing standards such as oauth2 OIDC and JWT

• Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD and dev-containers

• Familiarity with AWS IAM ALB/NLB route53 S3 Cloudflare

• Experience developing/scaling pipelines event streaming/processing in AWS using tools such as SQS or Kafka

• Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems

• Experience with k8s docker especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware

• Competitive compensation and equity

• 401k

• Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical Vision Dental)

• Lunch and snacks at the office

What We Do

Hedra is an AI native platform for multimodal creation. The platform is built around their own cutting-edge proprietary video model Character-3 which is the first multimodal model in production. Alongside Character-3 the platform also brings other leading foundation models into one ecosystem spanning generative images video and audio. Prosumer and enterprise users leverage Hedra to generate content ranging from viral social media to branded content marketing.

Why Work With Us

We're an early-stage team that moves very fast and is building at the leading edge of AI/Media. Every employee takes on a lot of ownership and has an opportunity to learn and grow rapidly.

Gallery