Backend Engineer

Genies is an avatar technology company powering the next era of interactive digital identity through AI companions. With the Avatar Framework and intuitive creation tools, Genies enables developers, talent, and creators to generate and deploy game-ready AI companions. The company’s technology stack supports full customization, AI-generated fashion and props, and seamless integration of user-generated content (UGC). Backed by investors including Bob Iger, Silver Lake, BOND, and NEA, Genies’ mission is to become the visual and interactive layer for the LLM-powered internet.

Genies is looking for a passionate Backend Engineer to help contribute to the current and future growth of our technology platform powering our AI / ML systems. As a Backend Engineer here at Genies you will help play a vital role in solving complex technical challenges that Genies backend services encounter while we scale and grow our product suite, and also play an integral part in the growth of our engineering organization.

Seated in either our San Francisco or Los Angeles based HQ, and reporting to the Vice President of Engineering, our ideal candidate has experience with languages like Golang, Python, or C++. They have development experience in compute heavy areas such as AI and Graphics. They are great leaders with the ability to influence their peers and mentor other team members. At the same time they enjoy hands-on coding, designing and working with APIs for both internal and external consumption, and thrive in solving really fun and challenging technical problems.

What You'll Be Doing :

• Develop backend microservices and systems supporting mobile and web applications
• Design and develop ML / LLM infrastructure systems
• Design and develop ML / LLM applications
• Automate, test, and deploy well-designed infrastructure, code, and services at scale
• Profile and optimize for load, latency, reliability, availability, fault tolerance
• Apply best practices in all aspects of web application development including security, testability, release management, live ops
• Collaborate with product and engineering to gather requirements and refine backlog
• Collaborate with team members on architectural designs and code reviews

What You Should Have :

How Genies will support you

Genies is a well-funded, growing start-up that cares deeply about each of our employees\' growth and success. Our roles and their responsibilities are created with a breadth of scope that introduces each employee to exciting new challenges and opportunities that a growing start-up encounters. The actual base pay is dependent upon a number of factors, including : professional background, training, transferable skills, work experience, education, location, business and product needs, and market demand. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Full-time employees may also be eligible for equity compensation, in addition to a robust health, wellness, and benefits package.

Starting Salary Range : $140,000 - $190,000

Here\'s why you\'ll love working at Genies :

Genies is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting an inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We value diversity, inclusion, and aim to provide a sense of belonging for everyone.

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