Software Engineer (Backend)

About this role

• Backend engineering at Mirage isn’t narrowly defined
• We work across product, platform, and machine learning—building the systems, services, APIs, and ML pipelines that power all of our product surfaces
• You’ll own critical backend systems end-to-end, partnering closely with product, design, client, and AI teams to turn ambitious ideas into reliable, scalable production systems
• This opportunity is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex technical problems while staying connected to product and user outcomes
• Design, build, and own backend systems end-to-end, including services, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure that power our products
• Solve complex technical challenges across distributed systems, scaling, concurrency, and performance
• Integrate and operate large generative AI models in production—deploying, serving, and scaling systems that combine internal research and external capabilities to unlock new product experiences
• Instrument, experiment, and iterate in production to continuously improve system and product quality
• Design and operate core platform infrastructure, including integrations with third-party providers, storage systems, security, and internal APIs

### Benefits

• We’ve done team off-sites to places like Paris, London, Park City, Los Angeles, and Nashville with more planned in the future
• Anything you need to do your best work
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans- Able to operate effectively in an extremely fast-paced environment as well as scope and deliver projects end-to-end
• Exceptional problem solving fundamentals and ability to learn
• 2+ years of professional industry experience
• Excellent engineering taste combined with a strong sense of practicality and time-management
• A track record of shipping high‑impact systems and/or products in production
• You have worked extensively with LLMs, generative media models, and have a pulse on where the technology is going
• You are grounded, collaborative, a...