We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to own the backbone of FLORA's platform. You'll be the technical leader for our backend systems—our database layer, generation infrastructure, observability, and the services that make a real-time creative tool feel effortless at scale. This is a foundational hire. We're looking for someone who lives and breathes backend architecture to take ownership, and help us build the systems that will support 10x growth. You'll have real authority over technical direction and the opportunity to shape how we grow the backend team. You'll work on Building generation orchestration layer for real scale—our user base and usage intensity are both growing fast. This is greenfield systems work with serious volume behind it. Improving observability across our generation 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 Making vendor and architecture decisions to support new features Working with the CTO, Product Engineer, and Intelligence Engineering teams to provide a stable, performant foundation for features across all clients