Senior Backend Developer

Description:

Artlist is a leading creative technology company on a mission to empower creators and brands to bring their vision to life with video. Offering cutting-edge AI tools and models for image, video, and voiceover creation, alongside high-quality creative assets and powerful editing tools, Artlist enables creators to stay on trend, and achieve their creative goals. Trusted by over 30 million creators worldwide and top brands including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Versace, Artlist provides a seamless, subscription-based platform with a global license, giving creators everything they need to produce professional video content efficiently. For more information, visit artlist.io.

Artlist is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our new Platform Infrastructure team.

In this foundational role, you’ll help build the shared backend systems, frameworks, and tooling that power every product across the company.

If you’re passionate about solving hard technical problems, shaping internal architecture, and scaling best practices across teams - we want to hear from you.

Wake Up for This

• Build for builders: Design and develop the backend infrastructure that other teams will rely on- from shared services and APIs to internal developer tools and performance optimizations.
• Engineer at scale: Work across modern backend stacks, building reusable systems that balance flexibility with consistency.
• Drive technical standards: Partner with tech leads, designers, and developers across the company to define best practices and guide architectural decisions.
• Lead by example: Mentor other engineers, support their growth, and help raise the overall bar for backend quality and maintainability.
• Create real impact: Your work will improve development velocity, code quality, and user experience for millions of creators and countless internal users.

• 6+ years of professional experience in backend development.
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience with Node.js in a production environment.
• Proven experience designing or maintaining shared backend systems (e.g., internal tooling, platform-level services, microservices, or APIs).
• Strong understanding of complex system design and application architecture — multiple services, offline processes, queues and topics, scale, performance, and error handling — backed by strong problem-solving skills, a solid investigation methodology, and an algorithmic mindset.
• Hands-on experience with cloud environments — AWS or equivalent (e.g., GCP, Azure) — including deploying, managing, and scaling backend services.
• Experience across a range of databases (SQL, NoSQL, key-value, and others), including designing schemas, optimizing queries, and ensuring data integrity.
• Experience working on internal platforms or infrastructure initiatives is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ownership and ability to lead projects end to end — working both independently and collaboratively with stakeholders, mentoring other engineers, and managing your own priorities and deadlines.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and building for performance, reliability, and security.
• A passion for clean code and developer experience, an independent and fast-learning mindset, and genuine enthusiasm for leveraging AI in day-to-day work and complex problem solving.