Backend Software Engineer

Humans•San Francisco, NY

3h•$140,000 - $260,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Created by Humans is a groundbreaking AI Rights licensing platform that connects creators with AI developers, enabling the licensing of copyrighted works for AI training and reference uses. Our platform aims to protect copyright owners’ rights while fostering innovation in AI. Created by Humans is built on our founding team’s extensive experience in the digital publishing, technology, and data infrastructure sectors. Trip Adler, our CEO, previously founded Scribd, where he pioneered the subscription model for books. We’re the official partner of the Authors Guild, the nation’s oldest and largest organization for 14,000+ writers. We’ve raised $10 million in seed financing from David Sacks’ Craft Ventures, Mike Maples, Jr. at Floodgate, YCombinator CEO, Garry Tan, and bestselling author Walter Isaacson. We have already hired several senior engineers (ex-Google, ex-Snap, ex-Rubrik) and are looking to expand our team. Over 50 authors have tested our product in beta, including Douglas Preston, Susan Orlean, Lincoln Child, and others. We made a collaboration agreement with one of the largest author associations in the US and are about to sign an agreement with one of the Big Five publishers in the US.

Requirements

Seasoned senior engineer.
Python (primary backend language).
AWS deployment experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with TypeScript, React, Tailwind, NextJS, and Radix UI.
Experience in the digital publishing, technology, and data infrastructure sectors.

Responsibilities

Building a large-scale system to curate, store and deliver content from multiple industries (publishing, video, websites, etc.) to AI companies.
Reconciling all stakeholders for various content.
Implementing a complex payout system so the value could flow back from AI Companies to all content creation stakeholders.
Showing technical excellence and a high level of ownership.