Backend Engineer, Product

Responsibilities

• ▹Work with product, design and frontend engineers from concept onward, owning the backend of user-facing features end to end
• ▹Design and build the systems behind sharing, profiles, moodboards, style galleries and subscriptions, where privacy and data integrity are central
• ▹Design and own the APIs that power web, mobile, Discord and public integrations
• ▹Build account and billing systems, including subscriptions, entitlements, usage accounting, data export and deletion
• ▹Design schemas, evolve them safely under live traffic, and ship work that reaches millions of people within days

Requirements

• ▹Built backend systems that power consumer products at scale
• ▹Strong instincts for API design and data modeling
• ▹Deep experience with relational databases, especially Postgres, including schema design, indexing, query performance and live migrations
• ▹Treats permissions, privacy and access control as product problems, not just technical ones
• ▹Enjoys working closely with product, design and frontend engineers from the earliest stages of a project
• ▹AI tools are part of your development workflow
• ▹Communicates clearly and works well across disciplines

Nice to have

• ▹Sharing, social graph or permission systems that grew from prototype to scale
• ▹Billing or subscription systems (Stripe or similar), or public/partner API design
• ▹Privacy and compliance-facing work: data export, deletion, retention

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Compensation: $175,000-$200,000 + benefits
• ▹Full-time, hybrid in San Francisco
• ▹Speed of a startup with the resources of a research lab: no investors, no quarterly reporting cycle
• ▹Tiny team, large ambitions - decisions show up in production within days

About the company

Midjourney is a small, self-funded research lab building a growing product ecosystem beyond generation, including profiles, moodboards, folder management, style galleries and subscriptions.