Founding Engineer Backend & AI Plat...

About Supermaya

We are building the infrastructure that helps machines understand brand memory, story, taste, and human psychology to create high-performing video ads. We aim to turn fragmented advertising workflows into an AI-native system where every campaign becomes intelligence for the next one.

The Role: Founding Engineer — Backend & AI Platform

We are seeking a Founding Engineer to own the platform spine. You will architect and build core systems including APIs, databases, generation workflows, async jobs, model orchestration, media infrastructure, asset management, brand memory backends, and internal developer tools.

This is not a standard ticket-execution role. We expect you to take messy creative workflows and engineer them into reliable, scalable systems that can handle the chaos of early-stage AI creativity.

What You'll Build

• Campaign and project backend systems
• Brand brief ingestion and creative workflow APIs
• Management for scripts, scenes, assets, and video variants
• Async generation pipelines (image/video/voice/captions/editing)
• Model API wrappers with intelligent routing, retries, and fallbacks
• Asset storage management (S3/R2/GCS), previews, thumbnails, and media processing
• 'Brand Memory' backend for guidelines, product truth, references, and history
• Internal tools to eliminate manual delivery chaos
• Cost, latency, and quality tracking across AI workflows

We're Looking For

We prioritize your portfolio over your company pedigree. Ideal candidates have:

• 2–6 years of backend or full-stack engineering experience
• Rock-solid fundamentals in building production APIs and database-backed systems
• Deep experience with async jobs, queues (BullMQ/Celery), workers, retries, and long-running workflows
• The ability to ship independently in high-ambiguity environments
• Comfort working directly with AI model outputs that are inherently messy
• Strong product thinking alongside code execution skills
• An interest at the intersection of AI, video, advertising, or multimodal systems

Tech Stack & Skills That Help

You do not need to know every tool below, but should be proficient in several:

• Languages: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, or Go
• Frameworks: FastAPI, Django, Express, NestJS
• Databases & Caching: PostgreSQL, Redis, Queues/Workers (Celery, BullMQ, Temporal)
• Storage: S3-compatible storage solutions (S3/R2/GCS)
• DevOps: Docker and basic cloud deployment practices
• Media Processing: FFmpeg basics for video/image handling
• AI Integration: LLM/Image/Video model APIs, Embeddings, Vector Search
• Observability: Logging, Auth (OAuth/JWT), API Design patterns

The Hard Part & Why Join

AI creative workflows are inherently messy. A single campaign involves complex brand contexts, scripts, scenes, media models, voiceovers, captions, editing approvals, and performance data. Your job is to make this chaos computable, reliable, and self-serve.

You will build systems where models fail, files are massive, user intent changes rapidly, quality remains subjective, but speed is critical. As one of the first engineers at Supermaya, you will help define our product architecture, engineering culture, and the core platform powering our creative intelligence layer.