Senior Backend Engineer

Genies is an AI avatar and games technology company powering the next generation of digital experiences. Genies' technology stack is rooted in empowering user generated content through the company's two main mantras:

“Anyone can create anything” & “Everything works with everything”

By combining these two guiding principles, individuals can craft limitless experiences while IP owners can build dynamic social gaming ecosystems powered by user-generated content (UGC) and AI Avatars—what Genies calls "Parties."

Genies' technology stack features a comprehensive suite of UGC tools that enable anyone to create AI avatars, complete with customizable fashion, props, behaviors, and personalities, as well as immersive AI avatar experiences. At its core is the Genies Avatar Framework, which leverages machine learning and computer graphics to ensure seamless interoperability across all user-generated AI avatars and experiences—unlocking boundless creative potential.

Early adopters of Genies’ first gen avatars include icons like Justin Bieber, Rihanna, J Balvin, Migos, and thousands more. With offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Genies has raised $200M from notable investors including Silver Lake, BOND, NEA, and Bob Iger.

Genies is looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to help contribute to the current and future growth of our technology platform powering our AI/ML systems. As a Senior Backend Engineer here at Genies you will help play a vital role in solving complex technical challenges that Genies backend services encounter while we scale and grow our product suite, and also play an integral part in the growth of our engineering organization.

Seated in either our SF Bay Area office (San Mateo) or Los Angeles based HQ, and reporting to the Vice President of Engineering, our ideal candidate has extensive experience with languages like Golang, Python, or C++. They have development experience in compute heavy areas such as AI and Graphics. They are great leaders with the ability to influence their peers and mentor other team members.

At the same time they enjoy hands-on coding, designing and working with APIs for both internal and external consumption, and thrive in solving really fun and challenging technical problems.

• Develop backend microservices and systems supporting mobile and web applications
• Design and develop ML infrastructure systems
• Design and develop ML applications
• Automate, test, and deploy well-designed infrastructure, code, and services at scale
• Profile and optimize for load, latency, reliability, availability, fault tolerance
• Apply best practices in all aspects of web application development including security, testability, release management, live ops
• Collaborate with product and engineering to gather requirements and refine backlog
• Collaborate with team members on architectural designs and code reviews

What You Should Have:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years professional experience as a software engineer
• Experience with ML systems and heavy compute workloads
• Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python or Golang
• Solid foundation in data structures and algorithms
• Development experience with Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience in developing, designing and working with Rest APIs, distributed No
  
  SQL and relational databases, caching systems, event-driven and multi-tier architectures
• Expertise in applying software patterns and Microservices patterns
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices and cost-effective cloud architecture
• Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure as code
• Self-starter, analytical, creative, highly motivated with an innovative spirit
• Excellent communication skills

How Genies will support you

Genies is a well-funded, growing start-up that cares deeply about each of our employees' growth and success. Our roles and their responsibilities are created with a breadth of scope that introduces each employee to exciting new challenges and opportunities that a growing start-up encounters. The actual base pay is dependent upon a number of factors, including: professional background, training, transferable…