Fal
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Core Product Systems
San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$190k-$230kDetected 15 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactNext.jsSQLPostgreSQLLLMs
About the role
- These are backend systems where correctness underpins real revenue and customer trust.
- Your first priority will be billing, fraud, and pricing.
- These are our highest-impact business initiatives, directly affecting both customer experience and revenue.
Responsibilities
- Own billing and pricing first - metering, usage roll-ups, pricing logic, and the customer/admin surfaces that make cost understandable and trustworthy.
- Design APIs, data models, and product contracts other teams safely build on.
- Partner across product, infra, finance, revenue, security, and customer-facing teams - turning messy, manual workflows into durable systems.
- 5+ years building reliable, production backend systems (Python and/or TypeScript).
- Strong PostgreSQL - schema design, queries, migrations, performance.
- API & data-model design for complex product or business domains.
- You will inherit systems that are functional, but you'll own their evolution over time to meet our growing customer needs and scale.
Skills
- fal is the generative media ecosystem powering the next generation of AI products.
Compensation
- Interesting, challenging work at the frontier of generative media · competitive salary and equity · learning and growth · relocation assistance + visa sponsorship to San Francisco · health, dental, and vision · regular team events and offsi
Benefits
- Own operational health, including on-call for the systems you build.
- You'll join early, own these systems end-to-end (from data model through rollout to operational health), and design the APIs and product surfaces other teams and customers depend on.
Company info
- If you enjoy building and evolving high-impact platform systems that directly influence both our customers' experience and the effectiveness of our internal teams, this is the place to be.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Interesting, challenging work at the frontier of generative media · competitive salary and equity · learning and growth · relocation assistance + visa sponsorship to San Francisco · health, dental, and vision · regular team events and offsi
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