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Stability AI · 1 hour ago

Senior Backend Engineer

Stability AI is seeking highly skilled Backend Engineers to rapidly deliver REST APIs and applications that leverage their models to provide delightful, multi-modal customer experiences. The role involves designing and implementing public REST APIs and services, collaborating with various teams to deliver high-quality products, and optimizing system performance.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIImage RecognitionInformation TechnologySoftware

Responsibilities

Design and implement public REST APIs and services, including data storage and ML backend services
Write clean and extensible Python and Typescript code with production-grade telemetry, scalability, debuggability and security best practices
Design and implement efficient database schemas for user preferences, subscription and billing management, content history management optimized for low latency responses
Work closely with product management, design, research, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality and user-friendly products
Identify performance bottlenecks in services and apis. Deliver optimized solutions to address them
Participate in on-call, incident management and root cause analysis to improve system reliability

Qualification

REST APIsDistributed servicesPythonKubernetes/AWS/GCP/AzureAI/ML applicationsTypeScriptNode.jsPostgresNoSQL databasesTechnical documentationProblem-solvingAttention to detail

Required

5+ years in designing and building REST APIs and distributed services for enterprise and consumer products in a high scale environment
2+ years of experience working with production AI/ML applications
Demonstrated experience in building robust backend services on Kubernetes/AWS/GCP/Azure infrastructure
Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Highly proficient in Python, TypeScript
Proficiency in writing comprehensive technical documentation (API documentation, design documents)

Preferred

Experience with Node.js, Cloudflare Workers, Postgres and NoSQL databases preferable
Experience in streaming multi-modal content (audio and video) is desirable but not required

Company

Stability AI

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Stability AI is an artificial intelligence company focused on developing open-source generative AI models.

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$256M
Key Investors
WPPIntel
2025-03-05Corporate Round
2024-06-25Series Unknown· $80M
2023-11-09Convertible Note· $50M

Leadership Team

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Prem Akkaraju
CEO
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Hanno Basse
Chief Technology Officer
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