Senior Backend Engineer

Genies•Los Angeles, CA

8h•Hybrid

About The Position

Genies is an AI avatar technology company powering the visual and embodiment layer for AI. Through the Genies SDK, their proprietary avatar framework brings AI to life as fully realized AI personas that look, think, behave, and play like living identities. Genies powers AI companion, NPC, and agent use cases across enterprise, consumer, creator, entertainment, and gaming. Genies has raised $200M from Silver Lake, BOND, and Bob Iger. Genies is built on the belief that every website, app, game, brand, and human will have an AI persona. 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 and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to help contribute to the current and future growth of our technology platform powering our AI/ML systems. As a Senior 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 SF Bay Area office (San Mateo) or Los Angeles based HQ, and reporting to the Vice President of Engineering, our ideal candidate has extensive 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.

Requirements

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field
3+ years professional experience as a software engineer
Experience with ML systems and heavy compute workloads
Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python or Golang
Solid foundation in data structures and algorithms
Development experience with Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform
Experience in developing, designing and working with Rest APIs, distributed NoSQL and relational databases, caching systems, event-driven and multi-tier architectures
Expertise in applying software patterns and Microservices patterns
Knowledge of cloud security best practices and cost-effective cloud architecture
Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure as code
Self-starter, analytical, creative, highly motivated with an innovative spirit
Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

Develop backend microservices and systems supporting mobile and web applications
Design and develop ML infrastructure systems
Design and develop ML 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