"Learning fast is an engineer's superpower in the AI era."
What We're Looking ForAbout the RoleViggle is building the next generation of AI-powered avatar and video generation. We're hiring a backend engineer to own and evolve our core platform - a Go-based business API serving millions of creators, and a distributed Python GPU pipeline that turns reference images and driving videos into high-quality avatar renders at scale.
What You'll Do- Architect and maintain highly scalable, distributed backend systems powering Viggle's global AI video generation platform across web and mobile clients
- Design and implement APIs that power video generation, character/asset management, the creator platform, and monetization (subscriptions, IAP, Stripe)
- Develop robust processing pipelines for ingesting user-uploaded videos and orchestrating GPU-heavy workloads (encoding, inpainting, rendering) in near real-time
- Productionize ML models from research to scale with our ML team, drive the technical vision for reliability, throughput, and cost efficiency across our GPU fleet - fast-fail coordination, resource reservation, credit safety, GPU utilization
What You'll Bring- 3-5 years of professional backend engineering experience
- Excellent proficiency in Go OR Python, with a strong ability and willingness to ramp up on the other - we don't expect day-one fluency in both. Our stack is Go (Gin, GORM) for business APIs and Python (FastAPI, asyncio, aiohttp) for GPU workers.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale - worker coordination, queue-based pipelines, resource reservation, fault recovery
- Familiarity with message queues and event-driven architectures (Redis, RabbitMQ, Temporal, NATS, Kafka, or similar)
- Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration - Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices
Bonus Points- Experience operating GPU inference services in production (PyTorch / TensorRT / Triton) - model loading, warmup, CUDA memory management, OOM debugging
- Familiarity with video processing toolchains (FFmpeg, OpenCV, fMP4 / HLS streaming, PTS/timestamp handling)
- Background in workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow) or stream processing
Benefits:- Dynamic startup culture-accelerate your skills and career growth
- Attractive equity packages and highly competitive salary
- Comprehensive dental coverage
- Complimentary lunch, dinner, snacks, and a vibrant, fun office environment
