# Backend Software Engineer, Product at Higgsfield

- Company: Higgsfield
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://higgsfield.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-17
- Apply by: 2026-12-01
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/higgsfieldai/1ae6430c-11c4-4e51-be20-a9d5d627a28d?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/higgsfield-backend-software-engineer-product/

## 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

Tags: Engineering & Product

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/higgsfield-backend-software-engineer-product/