As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy the backend services that power our creative brainstorming and creation products. You will work with web and video standards to power our suite of web-based image and video creation / editing tools.
You will also work on building and deploying backend services and APIs to our AWS infrastructure, write secure, stable, and scalable Python code, interface with our ground-breaking foundation model, and integrate with Postgres, Redis, S3, and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic.
You will work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology. We’re looking for full-time hires in our San Francisco office.
Required Experience:Experience developing scalable services using Python, using frameworks such as FastAPI and Pydantic
Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS
Experience working with relational databases
At least 5 years of professional experience building backend services
Experience building high availability services using CI/CD, full ranges of test validation approaches, monitoring and alerting
Familiarity with authentication / authorization, utilizing standards such as oauth2, OIDC, and JWT
Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD and dev-containers
Familiarity with AWS IAM, ALB/NLB, route53, S3, Cloudflare
Experience developing/scaling pipelines, event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka
Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems
Experience with k8s, docker, especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware
Competitive compensation and equity
401k
Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)
Lunch and snacks at the office
Skills Required
- 5 years of professional experience building backend services
- Experience developing scalable services using Python
- Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS
- Experience working with relational databases
Hedra Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is highlighted, including mainstream PPO options, indicating strong baseline support. Feedback suggests core healthcare is a consistent part of total rewards.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is included across roles and positioned as a core component of total rewards, aligning employees with company growth. This emphasis on ownership signals meaningful upside potential.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — An unlimited PTO policy is explicitly offered to support flexibility and work-life balance. Feedback suggests the policy complements the broader benefits package.
Hedra Insights
What We Do
Hedra is an AI native platform for multimodal creation. The platform is built around their own cutting-edge proprietary video model, Character-3, which is the first multimodal model in production. Alongside Character-3, the platform also brings other leading foundation models into one ecosystem spanning generative images, video, and audio. Prosumer and enterprise users leverage Hedra to generate content ranging from viral social media to branded content marketing.
Why Work With Us
We're an early-stage team that moves very fast and is building at the leading edge of AI/Media. Every employee takes on a lot of ownership and has an opportunity to learn and grow rapidly.
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Hedra Offices
OnSite Workspace
Hedra's main office is in San Francisco and secondary hub is in New York.
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