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Backend Software Engineer, Product

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Backend Software Engineer, Product in Others

  • Higgsfield
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Almaty, Kazakhstan

Responsibilities

  • Build backend systems for AI creation workflows, collaborative projects, and community features including sharing, discovery, contests, profiles, and follows.
  • Own features and bugs from ideation through release and follow-up, define API contracts, and coordinate frontend work.
  • Improve responsiveness, progress updates, failure recovery, correctness, latency, and reliability.
  • Diagnose and remove database and service bottlenecks under high traffic.
  • Define success metrics, build dashboards and alerts, and monitor adoption and system health after launch.
  • Design and operate secure, scalable services involving asynchronous workflows, caching, authorization, tenant isolation, and concurrent collaboration.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in database modeling, indexes, query plans, partitioning, transactions, locking, and production performance diagnosis.
  • Strong architecture judgment across service boundaries, APIs, asynchronous workflows, caching, and failure handling.
  • Hands-on Kubernetes and CI/CD experience spanning design, testing, deployment, and debugging.
  • Track record of shipping and operating backend systems across multiple projects and high-traffic workloads with measurable results.
  • Experience with API authentication, object-level authorization, tenant isolation, and preventing IDOR vulnerabilities.
  • Experience building or studying social networks and collaborative tools, including feeds, follow graphs, notifications, sharing permissions, real-time synchronization, and concurrent edits.
  • High agency, ownership, adaptability, constructive communication, and willingness to work through an intense pace and urgent production issues.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary in USD and equity.
  • Relocation support.
  • Ownership of product experiences shaping how people create with AI.
  • Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Salary: Competitive

Higgsfield

Higgsfield is the ultimate production studio for creators by creators. 40% of our team are filmmakers, producers, and creatives who shape our product roadmap, working side by side with our ML engineers in a relentless creative feedback loop. We're on a mission to give everyone with a vision the t...

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