Senior Backend Engineer (AI Product)

Gismart·RemoteRemotesenior

In short

→Ingeniero backend senior encargado de crear la base técnica de un producto de IA desde cero.
→Día a día: diseño de arquitectura, desarrollo de servicios backend con Go, integración con modelos de IA y gestión de pipelines asincrónicos.
→Destacado: eres el primer ingeniero backend en un producto de IA con enfoque en generación de imágenes, videos y agentes.

Proficiency in English is required for collaboration with global teams.

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What they ask for

✓4+ años de experiencia comercial en backend.
✓Experiencia sólida con Go o lenguaje tipado estático (Java, Kotlin, C#, Rust, TypeScript).
✓Diseño y mantenimiento de APIs REST/gRPC para apps móviles.
✓Conocimiento avanzado de PostgreSQL y consistencia de datos.
✓Experiencia con sistemas de procesamiento asíncrono (SQS, Redis, Kafka, Temporal).
✓Experiencia en cloud (AWS o GCP), Docker y CI/CD.

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About us: Gismart is a value-driven mobile app developer with a strong presence in the Health & Wellness, Utilities, and Music app markets. We have achieved a significant milestone of over 1 billion downloads worldwide, taking a step toward our mission of cultivating the well-being of people worldwide. With headquarters in London, UK, Gismart is a dynamic global company with a reach extending across Europe and far beyond. Our determined team comprises over 400 individuals who bring diversity, creativity, innovation, and relentless drive to the company. Gismart unites professionals from diverse backgrounds in entertainment, music, and tech, allowing us to play to each other’s strengths and succeed as a team. Our mission: Become a stepping stone on our customers’ journeys of self-improvement. Our values: D eliver what matters R espect and support others I nitiate and own V oiceopenly E xecute with quality If you are passionate about mobile app development and want to join a company that’s reshaping the industry, Gismart is the place for you. We provide exciting career opportunities, a supportive workplace culture, and the chance to contribute to a team that is making a tangible impact. com . We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to become the first engineering hire on a new product. You’ll play a key role in shaping the product’s technical foundation, making architectural decisions, and owning backend development end-to-end. You’ll join us at an exciting early stage as we build an AI orchestration platform — a single interface with a unified token balance across dozens of AI models. Our MVP is focused on image and video generation, with text chat and AI agents planned as the next major milestones. As one of the first engineers on the team, you’ll have a significant impact on the product architecture, technology choices, and engineering culture from day one. What you’ll bring: Core engineering: 4+ years of commercial experience in backend development. Strong experience with Go , or solid backend expertise in another statically typed language ( Java, Kotlin, C#, Rust, or TypeScript ) with a willingness to transition to Go from day one. Hands-on experience designing and building backend services that operate under real production load, with a solid understanding of architectural trade-offs and decision-making. Strong API design skills ( REST, gRPC ) with a focus on maintainability, backward compatibility, and building APIs consumed by mobile applications. Experience integrating third-party APIs, including handling retries, idempotency, rate limiting, and graceful recovery from partial failures. Data & Infrastructure: Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL , including transactions, isolation levels, indexing, and maintaining data consistency. Experience with asynchronous processing and messaging systems such as SQS, Redis, Kafka, Temporal , or similar technologies. Experience working with cloud platforms ( AWS or GCP ), Docker , and modern CI/CD pipelines. Practical experience with observability tools and practices, including metrics, logging, tracing, and independently debugging production issues. Experience with VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and Sentry is a plus. ai , Replicate, Runway, Flux, OpenAI, Anthropic). Background in systems where the backend handles money — billing, balances, subscriptions, payment providers. Experience with media pipelines: large files, CDN, transcoding. B2C products with paid acquisition and an understanding of unit economics. Streaming protocols (SSE/WebSocket), Kubernetes, Kafka. Early-stage startup experience or a personal project shipped to real users. Working Environment: Ability to quickly ramp up on an existing codebase and build on top of it rather than rewriting it from scratch.

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