Backend Software Engineer, Product

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Higgsfield
Full time
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10/18/2026
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Almaty, Kazakhstan

Responsibilities

Build backend systems for AI creation workflows, collaborative projects, and community features including sharing, discovery, contests, profiles, and follows.
Own features and bugs from ideation through release and follow-up, define API contracts, and coordinate frontend work.
Improve responsiveness, progress updates, failure recovery, correctness, latency, and reliability.
Diagnose and remove database and service bottlenecks under high traffic.
Define success metrics, build dashboards and alerts, and monitor adoption and system health after launch.
Design and operate secure, scalable services involving asynchronous workflows, caching, authorization, tenant isolation, and concurrent collaboration.

Requirements

Deep expertise in database modeling, indexes, query plans, partitioning, transactions, locking, and production performance diagnosis.
Strong architecture judgment across service boundaries, APIs, asynchronous workflows, caching, and failure handling.
Hands-on Kubernetes and CI/CD experience spanning design, testing, deployment, and debugging.
Track record of shipping and operating backend systems across multiple projects and high-traffic workloads with measurable results.
Experience with API authentication, object-level authorization, tenant isolation, and preventing IDOR vulnerabilities.
Experience building or studying social networks and collaborative tools, including feeds, follow graphs, notifications, sharing permissions, real-time synchronization, and concurrent edits.
High agency, ownership, adaptability, constructive communication, and willingness to work through an intense pace and urgent production issues.

Benefits

Competitive base salary in USD and equity.
Relocation support.
Ownership of product experiences shaping how people create with AI.
Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Salary: Competitive

Higgsfield

Higgsfield is the ultimate production studio for creators by creators. 40% of our team are filmmakers, producers, and creatives who shape our product roadmap, working side by side with our ML engineers in a relentless creative feedback loop. We're on a mission to give everyone with a vision the t...

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