Software Engineer, Backend
About The Position
Mirage is an AI video company building multimodal agents, video rendering technology, and generative video models. Its products include Captions, a workspace for generating, editing, and designing video; Tesseract, which gives AI agents video-editing capabilities; and APIs that let developers integrate Mirage models into their products. Backend engineering at Mirage spans product, platform, and machine learning. The role builds and operates the systems, services, APIs, infrastructure, and ML pipelines that power Mirage’s products. The engineer will own critical backend systems end-to-end and partner with product, design, client, and AI teams to turn ideas into reliable, scalable production systems. Mirage is hiring engineers who have operated at senior or staff-plus scope, although it does not use hierarchical titles or levels internally. Most roles require in-person work at Mirage’s New York City headquarters in Union Square. Benefits listed apply only to full-time employees.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional industry experience.
- A track record of shipping high-impact systems and/or products in production.
- Strong problem-solving fundamentals and ability to learn.
- Excellent engineering judgment, practicality, and time-management skills.
- Ability to work effectively in an extremely fast-paced environment and scope and deliver projects end-to-end.
Nice To Haves
- Extensive experience with LLMs or generative media models, and awareness of the direction of the technology.
- A grounded, collaborative approach and willingness to do what is needed to help the team succeed.
- Experience as a startup founder or early engineer at a startup.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own backend systems end-to-end, including services, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure that power Mirage’s products.
- Solve technical challenges involving distributed systems, scaling, concurrency, and performance.
- Integrate and operate large generative AI models in production, including deploying, serving, and scaling systems that combine internal research and external capabilities.
- Instrument, experiment, and iterate in production to improve system and product quality.
- Design and operate core platform infrastructure, including third-party provider integrations, storage systems, security, and internal APIs.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Commuter benefits.
- Catered lunch multiple days per week.
- Dinner stipend when working late.
- Grubhub subscription.
- Health and wellness perks.
- Multiple team offsites per year and monthly team events.
- Generous paid time off policy.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
