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FLORA · 2 hours ago

Staff Engineer, Backend

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
date7+ years exp

FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building the world’s most powerful creative tools. They are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to lead the technical direction of their backend systems and build infrastructure that supports their rapidly growing user base.

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Responsibilities

Building generation orchestration layer for real scale—our user base and usage intensity are both growing fast. This is greenfield systems work with serious volume behind it
Improving observability across our generation infrastructure to drive down failure rates and surface issues before users notice
Optimizing our database layer—schema design, index strategy, and migrations as we scale
Making vendor and architecture decisions to support new features
Working with the CTO, Product Engineer, and Intelligence Engineering teams to provide a stable, performant foundation for features across all clients

Qualification

Backend architectureTypeScriptReliable systems designObservabilityQueue-based architecturesTechnical leadershipReal-time database architecturesCreative tools experienceServerless patterns

Required

7+ years building robust backend systems, with experience operating services at meaningful scale
5+ years of deep TypeScript experience—you have strong opinions about type safety, error handling, and code organization
Proven ability to design and operate reliable systems
Experience with sophisticated queue-based architectures (job scheduling, orchestration, fault tolerance)
Strong instincts for observability—you've instrumented systems, built dashboards, and used data to drive reliability improvements
A track record of technical leadership: setting direction, making architectural decisions, and elevating the engineers around you

Preferred

Convex, or strong opinions about real-time database architectures
Creative tools, media pipelines, or products with complex asset workflows
Queue/orchestration sophistication at massive scale
Serverless patterns - Vercel, AWS Lamdba, Google Cloud Run, etc

Company

FLORA

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FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building creative tools.
dateFounded in 2024
location
Brooklyn, New York, USA
people-size2-10 employees
web-link
https://www.florafauna.ai

H1B Sponsorship

FLORA has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$6.5M
2025-05-29Seed· $6.5M
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