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Backend Software Engineer, Product

Higgsfield AI· Product Engineering
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Almaty, KazakhstanFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Backend engineer focused on building AI creation workflows, collaboration features, and community tooling. Own product outcomes from idea to production with deep database and architecture expertise, delivering scalable, observable systems for high-traffic workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Build AI creation workflows, Cinema Studio collaboration, and community features: sharing, discovery, contests, profiles, and follows.
  • Own features and bugs through release and follow-up. Define API contracts and coordinate frontend work to deliver the complete feature.
  • Deliver responsive UX: live progress, timely updates, and clear failure recovery, even when it takes more engineering effort.
  • Remove database and service bottlenecks under high traffic; improve correctness, latency, and reliability.
  • Define success metrics, build dashboards and alerts, and track adoption and system health after launch.

Qualifications

  • Deep database expertise: data modeling, indexes, query plans, partitioning, transactions, and locking. Diagnose production bottlenecks and understand trade-offs.
  • Strong architecture judgment: service boundaries, APIs, asynchronous workflows, caching, and failure handling. Hands-on Kubernetes and CI/CD experience, from design and testing to deployment and debugging.
  • A track record of shipping and operating backend systems across multiple projects, including high-traffic workloads. Ability to explain decisions and measurable results.
  • API security: authentication, object-level authorization, and tenant isolation. Prevent IDOR and test access across users and workspaces.
  • Built or studied social networks and collaborative tools; explain design trade-offs in feeds, follow graphs, notifications, sharing permissions, real-time sync, and concurrent edits.
  • High agency and ownership: identify worthwhile problems, propose improvements, remove blockers, and follow through without waiting for assignments.
  • Low ego: welcome feedback, admit mistakes, change mind with evidence, help where needed.
  • Ambition and optimism: pursue hard goals, rapid growth, and constructive challenge of assumptions.
  • Energy for intense pace and potential after-hours work for launches or production issues.

Skills

Required:Database design and optimizationSystem design and architectureKubernetes and CI/CDSecurity and access controlSocial/collaboration platform concepts
Last updated Oct 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Higgsfield AI — AI-native creative suite

Create images, videos, and voice content with Higgsfield AI from text prompts or references. Edit and upscale media, automate creative workflows with its AI agent, and generate content on web and mobile.

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