ImagineArt - Senior Backend Engineer

Remote - Dubai, United Arab Emirates1w ago

Remote Senior EMEA Backend Engineer Senior Backend Developer Kafka Go

Requirements

• Strong backend experience (5+ years) with real ownership of production systems at scale • Proven system design skills — you can defend your architecture decisions with tradeoffs, not buzzwords • Hands-on experience with asynchronous pipelines, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, or similar), and distributed workers • Comfort with high-concurrency, high-throughput environments • Ability to work independently in a fast, low-process, bootstrapped environment • Experience with Go (or willingness to work in it — we lean on Go for backend) • Exposure to ML/AI infrastructure, GPU workloads, or media processing pipelines • Track record contributing to open source (we look at GitHub signal)

Responsibilities

• Design and own backend systems that handle high-throughput, asynchronous workloads (generation queues, worker orchestration, media processing) • Architect for scale and reliability — you'll make the calls on data flow, service boundaries, and failure handling • Build and optimize async pipelines: job queuing, retries, backpressure, dead-letter handling, and everything that keeps millions of requests moving • Improve performance and cost at the infrastructure level — inference is expensive, and efficiency is a product feature here • Set technical direction and raise the engineering bar for the team through review and mentorship

Benefits

• Real revenue, real users, no VC treadmill — decisions are made by engineers and founders, fast • Genuinely hard technical problems at the intersection of AI and scale • Fully remote, full-time