Founding Engineer Backend & AI Platform

About Supermaya

Supermaya is building a creative reasoning layer for machines.

We are not building another AI video tool or prompt wrapper. We are building the infrastructure that helps machines understand brand memory, story, taste, cinematic direction, human psychology, and platform performance — and turn that understanding into high-performing video ads.

Today, video advertising is still fragmented across strategy, scripting, storyboarding, image/video generation, editing, review, localization, and performance iteration. Supermaya is turning this into an AI-native system where every campaign becomes intelligence for the next one.

We already work with brands on AI-led video campaigns. Now we are building the product and platform behind it.

The Role

We are looking for a Founding Engineer — Backend & AI Platform to build the core backend systems behind Supermaya.

You will own the platform spine: APIs, databases, generation workflows, async jobs, model orchestration, media infrastructure, asset management, brand memory backend, and internal tools.

This is not a ticket-execution role. You will take messy creative workflows and turn them into reliable systems that can scale.

What You'll Build

You will work across:

• Campaign and project backend systems
• Brand brief ingestion and creative workflow APIs
• Script, scene, asset, and video variant management
• Async generation pipelines for image, video, voice, captions, and editing
• Model API wrappers, routing, retries, fallbacks, and job monitoring
• Asset storage, previews, thumbnails, and media processing workflows
• Brand memory backend for guidelines, product truth, references, and creative history
• Internal tools to reduce manual campaign delivery chaos
• Cost, latency, and quality tracking across AI workflows

What We're Looking For

We care more about what you have built than where you have worked.

You may be a strong fit if you have:

• 2–6 years of backend or full-stack engineering experience
• Strong backend fundamentals
• Experience building production APIs and database-backed systems
• Experience with async jobs, queues, workers, retries, or long-running workflows
• Ability to ship independently in high-ambiguity environments
• Comfort working with AI model APIs and messy AI outputs
• Strong product thinking, not just code execution
• Interest in AI, video, creative tools, advertising, or multimodal systems

Technical Skills That Help

You do not need to know everything below, but you should be strong in several:

• Python, TypeScript, Node.js, or Go
• FastAPI, Django, Express, NestJS, or similar
• PostgreSQL, Redis, queues/workers
• Celery, BullMQ, Temporal, or similar orchestration systems
• S3/R2/GCS-style storage
• Docker and cloud deployment basics
• FFmpeg or media processing basics
• LLM/image/video model APIs
• Embeddings, vector search, or AI workflow systems
• Logging, observability, auth, and API design

You Are Probably Not a Fit If

Please do not apply if:

• You want a clearly scoped corporate engineering role
• You need detailed PRDs before starting
• You have only built toy AI demos
• You are excited by AI but not by backend systems
• You cannot show meaningful things you have built
• You dislike debugging production issues
• You are uncomfortable with early-stage startup intensity
• You are looking for a slow, predictable job

Why This Role Is Hard

AI creative workflows are messy.

A single campaign can involve brand context, scripts, scenes, images, video models, voice, captions, editing, feedback, approvals, exports, and performance data.

Your job is to make this chaos computable, reliable, and eventually self-serve.

You will be building systems where models fail, files are large, users change their minds, quality is subjective, and speed matters.

Why Join

You will be one of the first engineers at Supermaya.

You will help define the product architecture, backend systems, AI workflow infrastructure, engineering culture, and the core platform that powers our creative intelligence layer.

This is a rare opportunity to build at the intersection of AI, video, advertising, creative tools, and infrastructure.

Compensation

Market-standard cash compensation for an early-stage startup, with significant ESOPs for outstanding candidates.

How to Apply

Please apply with:

• LinkedIn profile
• GitHub / portfolio / product links
• 1–2 systems you have built end-to-end
• A short note on why this problem interests you

Applications without proof of serious building will be deprioritized.

if you are not able to apply here at Linkedin, please mail me at [Confidential Information] with your proof of work.