Backend Engineer

We are a senior engineering team. We are hiring a backend engineer for our client, a European company that builds AI tools for creators. You will join their product team long term.

The team ships fast. New image and video models reach users within days of release, and engineers are expected to shape what gets built, not only how. You will work directly with their product and engineering people.

What matters most to us
- You have built a product for creators or designers: a design tool, a creative marketplace, a photo, video or audio app, a generative AI platform or something close to it
- You think about the person using the product. You question a feature when it does not serve them and suggest a better one
- You use creative or generative tools yourself and have opinions about what makes them good or frustrating

What you will do
- Build and scale backend services for the lifecycle of AI generations: image, video, audio, 3D
- Run long, resource-heavy generation jobs reliably, with queues, retries and resumable steps
- Bring new models into the product quickly and turn their outputs into features creators actually use
- Work with AWS (EKS, S3, Lambda), Kafka or SQS, gRPC or GraphQL

You should have
- 5+ years of backend work, ideally in Go. If you come from a creator platform and work in another language, apply anyway and tell us how fast you would pick up Go
- Experience owning parts of a production system end to end
- Fluent spoken English for daily work with the client team

The engagement is full time, 40 hours a week, long term. Your working day must overlap with Amsterdam time. Individual engineers only, no agencies.

How we hire: a call with our CTO about your product work and your code, then a call with the client's team. Both are live, with screen share and without AI assistants.

To apply, open your application with a link to a creator or design product you helped build and one sentence on what you owned in it. Applications without it will not be read.