Senior Engineer, Backend

Embedding VC•New York, NY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help build the backbone of FLORA's platform. You'll work across our database layer, generation infrastructure, observability, and the services that make a real-time creative tool feel effortless at scale. We're a team of strong full-stack engineers looking for someone with deep backend expertise to tackle our hardest systems problems. You'll take ownership of complex projects, collaborate closely with engineering leadership on architecture decisions, and grow alongside the backend team as we scale.

Requirements

5+ years building robust backend systems, with experience operating services at meaningful scale
3+ years of deep TypeScript experience—you have strong opinions about type safety, error handling, and code organization
Proven ability to take ambiguous problems and deliver well-designed solutions
Experience with queue-based architectures (job scheduling, orchestration, fault tolerance)
Strong instincts for observability—you've instrumented systems, built dashboards, and used data to drive reliability improvements
Stellar communication skills and a collaborative approach to technical decisions

Nice To Haves

Convex, or strong opinions about real-time database architectures
Creative tools, media pipelines, or products with complex asset workflows
Queue/orchestration sophistication at scale
Serverless patterns — Vercel, AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run, etc.

Responsibilities

Building generation orchestration infrastructure for real scale
Improving observability across our infrastructure to drive down failure rates and surface issues before users notice
Optimizing our database layer—schema design, index strategy, and migrations as we scale
Collaborating on architecture decisions to support new features
Working with the CTO, Product Engineering, and Intelligence Engineering teams to provide a stable, performant foundation for features across all clients