Senior Software Engineer - Backend
vizcomMillbrae, CA
$195,000 per year
APPLY (opens in a new tab)Senior Software Engineer - Backend
vizcomMillbrae, CALead L6
$195,000 per year
Why Vizcom
Our mission is to reshape design by streamlining the path from concept to creation, bringing more impactful ideas into the physical world. We’re well-funded (Series B $51m to date), growing double-digits MoM, and expanding the core engineering team in SF. The surface area is big: realtime collaboration, GPU inference at scale, a modern TypeScript stack, and serving real enterprise
The Role:
As the Senior Software Engineer – Backend (Systems / Infrastructure)you’ll architect and deliver backend systems that keep Vizcom fast, reliable, and scalable as our workload and customer base grow. You’ll work on everything fromqueueing GPU workloadstooptimizing GraphQL resolversandstreaming realtime events. You’ll have deep ownership over APIs, performance, and data integrity — while collaborating with frontend and AI teams to enable magical experiences. Within your first 90 days you will: ship onecritical backend feature(e.g., model queue, caching layer, or realtime service), reduce p95 latency in one major API path by ~30%, Author one technical RFC proposing an improvement to architecture or reliability, Implement or document oneobservability improvement(metrics, traces, alerts).Compensation
$195k - $225,000K + Offers Equity
What You’ll Do:
- Design and implement scalable APIsin TypeScript/Node with GraphQL and Postgres
- Profile and optimizeslow paths — queries, resolvers, and I/OBuild and operate distributed systems:job queues, streaming, caching, and observability
- Collaborate with AI engineersto integrate GPU inference pipelines into user workflows
- Improve reliability:lead incident reviews, strengthen CI/CD and deployment flows
- Mentor teammateson backend architecture, testing, and performance thinking
- The Problems You’ll Tackle
- Distributed GPU inference and queueing with bursty workloads.
- Realtime synchronization with WebSocket and CRDT-based collaboration.
- GraphQL performance: caching, batching, resolver optimization.
- Secure multi-tenant data boundaries and enterprise integrations (SSO/SAML/SCIM).Our Stack (today)
Frontend:
TypeScript, React, Vite, WebGL; realtime collaboration.
API/Backend:
TypeScript/Node, GraphQL (PostGraphile), Postgres, Redis, background workers.
Infra:
Kubernetes, Pulumi, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Datadog for observability, feature flags.
Security/Enterprise:
SSO/SAML (WorkOS), SOC 2-minded practices.
Experience with every item above is not required. What matters is that you are excited to shape it.
Qualifications5–8+ years building production web systems (TypeScript/Node or similar)
Strength indatabases, performance tuning, anddistributed systems
Experience operating
Kubernetesor similar orchestration environments.
Fluency withobservabilitytools and debugging live systems.
Bonus:
GPU workloads, background job systems, or realtime architectures. How We WorkSmall team, high ownership. Fewer people, more leverage. Design-centric. We obsess over speed and feel; “fast enough” usually is not. Write it down. RFCs, crisp decisions, living docs. Operate what you build. Everyone takes on-call support; incidents drive improvement, not blame.
Interview Process:
- Intro (30m): mutual fit, role and impact.
- Architectural deep-dive (45m): product and design collaboration.
- Coding Session (45m):Onsite Interview (half day)
- References and offer.
- Ready to Build?
If you want your work to be used daily by world-class designers and you like owning problems end to end, let’s talk. Apply with links (GitHub, LinkedIn, notable projects) and a short note on something hard you shipped.
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Level
Lead L6
Salary
$195,000 per year
Location
Millbrae, CA
Occupation
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Industry
Software Publishers
Posted
11 days ago