Create images, videos, and voice content with Higgsfield AI from text prompts or references. Edit and upscale media, automate creative workflows with its AI agent, and generate content on web and mobile. Backed by Accel and Menlo.
About the role
Deep database expertise: data modeling, indexes, query plans, partitioning, transactions, and locking. You diagnose production bottlenecks and understand the trade-offs behind your fixes. A track record of shipping and operating backend systems across multiple projects, including high-traffic workloads. You can explain your decisions and measurable results. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Deep database expertise: data modeling, indexes, query plans, partitioning, transactions, and locking. You diagnose production bottlenecks and understand the trade-offs behind your fixes
- Strong architecture judgment: service boundaries, APIs, asynchronous workflows, caching, and failure handling. Hands-on Kubernetes and CI/CD experience, from design and testing to deployment and debugging
- A track record of shipping and operating backend systems across multiple projects, including high-traffic workloads. You can explain your decisions and measurable results
- API security: authentication, object-level authorization, and tenant isolation. You prevent IDOR in reads and writes, including resource IDs in request bodies, and test access across users and workspaces
- You've built or studied social networks and collaborative tools, and can explain design trade-offs in feeds, follow graphs, notifications, sharing permissions, real-time sync, and concurrent edits
- High agency and ownership: you find worthwhile problems, propose improvements, remove blockers, and follow through without waiting for assignments
More about this role
Almaty, Kazakhstan · Trust & Safety Engineering
Why this role exists
Higgsfield builds tools for AI creators: creative workflows, collaborative projects in Cinema Studio, and a community for sharing work. We need a backend engineer who combines deep database and architecture expertise with the initiative to own product outcomes, from the first idea to production.
Build AI creation workflows, Cinema Studio collaboration, and community features: sharing, discovery, contests, profiles, and follows.
Own features and bugs through release and follow-up. Define API contracts and coordinate frontend work to deliver the complete feature.
Deliver responsive UX: live progress, timely updates, and clear failure recovery, even when it takes more engineering effort.
Remove database and service bottlenecks under high traffic; improve correctness, latency, and reliability.
Define success metrics, build dashboards and alerts, and track adoption and system health after launch.
Deep database expertise: data modeling, indexes, query plans, partitioning, transactions, and locking. You diagnose production bottlenecks and understand the trade-offs behind your fixes.
Strong architecture judgment: service...
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