FlipaClip - Backend Tech Lead

FlipaClip is the world’s biggest animation app with over +90 million lifetime installs.

FlipaClip turns any mobile device into an animation studio.

Animated movies and shows require massive budgets, years of production, or the approval of a handful of studios to exist. That’s how the industry has worked for decades.

Very soon, a blockbuster animated movie will be entirely produced by a 15-year old in her parent’s basement. On a phone. And it will be made and distributed for $0.
We are on it.

• Own the delivery and long-term operation of high-impact backend systems, from architecture to production.

• Set and evolve backend processes, engineering standards, and technical best practices.

• Define and actively use KPIs covering system reliability, development speed, data quality, and error rates.

• Make system-level architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs with a clear understanding of impact.

• Establish automated testing and validation processes that reduce regressions and operational risk.

• Introduce AI-assisted development workflows where they increase leverage, with strong validation and safety mechanisms.

• Communicate progress, risks, and technical decisions clearly across engineering and product stakeholders.

• 5+ years building and maintaining with AWS

• Demonstrable experience delivering high-impact backend systems and projects that operate successfully in production

• Strong experience building backend services for mobile applications (iOS/Android)

• Ownership: Strong sense of ownership, strategic thinking, and a solution-first mindset

• Management: Creating structure where needed. Processes, standards, and objectives that teams actually follow.

• Product-minded: Able to balance engineering quality with pragmatic trade-offs to move fast.

• Customer-obsessed: Making technical decisions with a clear understanding of how they affect customers, product quality, and our overall business.

• Solid experience working with Node.js and TypeScript

• Strong understanding of modern React frameworks

• Experience with Docker and containerized deployments

• Solid understanding of RESTful API design and implementation

• Interest in or experience with Generative AI and related technologies

It is a MUST to have...

• Owned analytics infrastructure at a consumer or product-led company. Has taken Amplitude, Mixpanel, or Segment from messy to trustworthy. Used RevenueCat or other subscription tools. Used Appsflyer or other attribution tools. Defined event taxonomy, governance, reconciliation.

• Shipped experimentation infrastructure. A/B test data quality, variant assignment, SRM detection, trustworthy success metrics.

• Backend engineering depth on user or identity systems. Python or Node production. Debugged UUID, device ID, or session identity across login, logout, multi-device, reinstall.

• Has led 1 to 3 engineers. Set technical direction, upskilled non-data engineers.

• SQL-fluent at modeling level. Evidence to look for: Designed event schemas or metrics layers others relied on.

• Hands-on experience working on AI/ML or LLM-based products.

• Experience with NestJS framework

• Python experience, particularly with Apache Airflow or similar ETL tools

• Knowledge of Firebase (Authentication, Firestore, Remote Config)

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi or Terraform)

• Familiarity with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Signoz, or similar)

• Experience with video streaming technologies (HLS, MediaConvert)

• Knowledge of analytics platforms (Amplitude, MoEngage, or similar)

• Experience with ElasticSearch or similar search technologies

• Understanding of mobile app backend requirements (iOS/Android)

• Experience with subscription/payment integrations (Purchasely, RevenueCat, IAP)

Backend

• Node.js (14/16) with NestJS and Restify frameworks

• Python 3.9 for ETL and data pipelines

• Apache Airflow 2.7.3 for workflow orchestration

• JWT-based authentication

• Sequelize ORM

Frontend

• Next.js 15 with App Router

• React 18/19 with TypeScript

• Tailwind CSS for styling

• Zustand for state management

• SWR for data fetching

• Radix UI component library

• Infrastructure & DevOps

• AWS (ECS Fargate, S3, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, CloudFront, MediaConvert)

• Docker and Docker Compose

• Pulumi for Infrastructure-as-Code

• GitHub Actions for CI/CD

• Vercel for frontend deployments

Data & Storage

• MySQL and PostgreSQL (AWS RDS)

• Redis (AWS ElastiCache)

• ElasticSearch for search functionality

• Firebase Firestore

• AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2 for asset storage

Observability

• Signoz with OpenTelemetry (OTLP)

• Winston for structured logging

• Slack webhooks for alerting

• Silver.dev Recruiter Screen

• Silver.dev Live Coding Screen

• Behavioral Screen with FlipaClip's CAO

• Work Experience Overview + some Technical Discussion with FlipaClip's COO

• Final Screen with FlipaClip's CEO