Backend Engineer

Are you passionate about building scalable backend systems that power real-world products at scale? Do you enjoy designing clean architectures, owning core services, and working across data, content, and monetization domains?

Join Pixellot’s Content & Monetization Engineering Team, where you’ll help build the foundational services that power the company’s next generation of sports content and monetization products. This is a hands-on backend engineering role focused on designing, building, and maintaining scalable microservices and data-driven systems in production environments.

At Pixellot, we are revolutionizing sports production through AI-powered solutions that automatically capture, analyze, and transform sports events into personalized experiences for players, teams, leagues, and fans worldwide.

As a Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the infrastructure and services behind our content generation, highlights, metadata, and monetization platforms, directly impacting the company’s growth and future vision as a Data-as-a-Service company.

As part of your role, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
• Develop microservices using technologies such as NestJS and Python.
• Work on systems related to content generation, highlights, metadata processing, monetization flows, and integrations.
• Collaborate closely with AI researchers, data engineers, product managers, and frontend engineers.
• Take ownership of production systems, including observability, reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Participate in architectural decisions and help define engineering standards and best practices.
• Work with cloud-native technologies, asynchronous workflows, distributed systems, and modern AI-driven development methodologies.
• Contribute to the evolution of the company’s data and content infrastructure.
  
  

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in backend development, building scalable production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Node.js (TypeScript), preferably NestJS, and experience with Python.
• Experience designing and developing microservices, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native environments.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Solid understanding of software architecture, performance, and scalability.
• Experience using AI-powered development tools as part of the development workflow.
• Strong ownership, problem-solving skills, and ability to work independently.
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  
  

• Be part of a pioneering company transforming the way sports content is created and consumed.
• Build systems that directly impact millions of sports moments worldwide.
• Work with highly talented engineers, AI researchers, and product teams.
• Help shape the technical foundations of Pixellot’s next generation platform.
• Thrive in a culture that values ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.