Vizcom
Senior Software Engineer – Backend
San Francisco · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$195k-$225kDetected 229 days ago
TypeScriptReactViteNode.jsDistributed SystemsGitPostgreSQLRedisKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsDatadogGraphQLWebSocketsComplianceCollaboration
About the role
- You'll work on everything from queueing GPU workloads to optimizing GraphQL resolvers and streaming realtime events.
- You'll have deep ownership over APIs, performance, and data integrity - while collaborating with frontend and AI teams to enable magical experiences.
- $195,000 - $225,000 ANNUALLY + OFFERS EQUITY
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable APIs in TypeScript/Node with GraphQL and Postgres
- Profile and optimize slow paths - queries, resolvers, and I/O
- Build and operate distributed systems: job queues, streaming, caching, and observability
- Collaborate with AI engineers to integrate GPU inference pipelines into user workflows
- Improve reliability: lead incident reviews, strengthen CI/CD and deployment flows
- Design-centric.
- Operate what you build.
- Everyone takes on-call support; incidents drive improvement, not blame.
Requirements
- Experience operating Kubernetes or similar orchestration environments.
- Experience with every item above is not required.
- What matters is that you are excited to shape it.
- 5-8+ years building production web systems (TypeScript/Node or similar)
- Strength in databases, performance tuning, and distributed systems
- Fluency with observability tools and debugging live systems.
- Bonus: GPU workloads, background job systems, or realtime architectures.
- Small team, high ownership. Fewer people, more leverage.
- Design-centric. We obsess over speed and feel
- Write it down. RFCs, crisp decisions, living docs.
- Operate what you build. Everyone takes on-call support
- incidents drive improvement, not blame.
Nice to have
- Small team, high ownership.
- Fewer people, more leverage.
- We obsess over speed and feel
- "fast enough" usually is not.
- RFCs, crisp decisions, living docs.
Compensation
- $195,000 - $225,000 ANNUALLY + OFFERS EQUITY
This listing is sourced directly from Vizcom's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.