Lead Backend Engineer, Genies
Developer Platform
$200-250k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Creating avatars
Open for applications
Creating avatars
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-250k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To unlock a more authentic type of human expression, enabling people to be more comfortable with their true selves in the digital world.
Role
Who you are
- Our ideal candidate has extensive experience with languages like Golang, Python, Java or C++
- They are great leaders with the ability to influence their peers and mentor other team members
- At the same time they enjoy hands-on coding, designing and working with APIs for both internal and external consumption, and thrive in solving really fun and challenging technical problems
- Must have completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (Master's degree is a plus)
- 7+ years of professional experience
- Experience in NoSQL database design and development
- Experience in developing, designing and working with APIs, distributed databases and caching systems
- Experience with Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform
- Proficiency in an object-oriented language such as Python, Golang, Java or C++
- Robust exploratory/experimental skills
- Self-starter, analytical, creative, highly motivated with a visionary spirit
- Strong skills in terms of identifying and articulating goals and risks to management
- Team player with strong influencing skills
What the job involves
- Genies is looking for a Lead Backend Engineer to join our Developer Platform Team and drive the development and growth of our backend services powering the developer platform and tools, core mobile experiences, and the AI infrastructure for our products
- In this role, you will collaborate closely with other leaders across engineering, product and design, to define the scope and drive the execution of the Developer Platform
- Seated in either our SF Bay Area office (San Mateo) or Los Angeles based HQ, and reporting to the Director of Engineering
- Design and develop scalable, high-performance backend services that power both mobile and web applications, ensuring reliability and scalability
- Build with creativity and innovation while having opportunities to experiment with cutting-edge technologies and solutions applied everywhere from data storage to APIs to user facing experiences and games
- Build and operate a high quality infrastructure and service ecosystem, ensuring high availability, security, and performance
- Collaborate with the broader engineering team to help plan the company's long-term technology roadmap and define the future of our systems
- Support efforts to advance useful LLM and ML systems for end-users while gaining new knowledge from our researchers
- Lead efforts to scale our infrastructure horizontally and vertically to accommodate the growing demand for our avatar experiences, ensuring robustness and reliability even under increased load
- Demonstrate adaptability by taking on additional responsibilities as needed, contributing to the company's success and growth
Our take
Genies is a leading avatar company, bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds. With the number of users in the digital space growing exponentially, Genies' goal is to help people more accurately depict themselves online.
While avatars have been around for a while, Genies provides users with greater customization options. For example, thanks to a partnership with Gucci, users can now buy digital designer clothing for their avatars.
The fact that Fortnite sold $1B in avatar skins in one year alone highlights how popular avatars still are in the gaming and entertainment industry. Genies has raised nearly $270M in funding and hopes to capitalize on this opportunity moving forward.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Apr 2022
$150m
SERIES C
May 2021
$65m
SERIES B
Total funding: $255.3m
Company benefits
- You'll work with a team that you’ll be able to learn from and grow with, including support for your own professional development
- You'll be at the helm of your own career, shaping it with your own innovative contributions to a nascent team and product with flexible hours and a work from home policy
- You'll enjoy the culture and perks of a startup, with the stability of being well funded
- Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family (Anthem + Kaiser Options Available), Dental and Vision Insurance
- Competitive salaries and 401K program for all full time employees
- Flexible paid time off, sick time, monthly mental health days and paid company holidays; in addition to paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave for full-time employees
- Health & wellness support through programs such as monthly wellness reimbursement
- Working in a brand new, bright, open-environment and fun office space - there’s even a slide!
- Choice of MacBook or windows laptop
Company HQ
Los Angeles, CA
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Leadership
Akash Nigam
(CEO)CEO and founder at Blend, then co-founded Genies in 2017 - has been CEO since. General Partner and Founder at Humans since 2020.
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