Backend Engineer (Early-Stage / Founding Team)

| | | |---|---| ## About PixaSocial Ai PixaSocial Ai (https://pixasocial.com) creates viral social content powered by proprietary psychology and psychographic models. It generates posts, visuals, and campaigns, then publishes across Instagram, X, LinkedIn, and 12 other channels. Product surfaces include Brand Influencers, Product UGC Studio, Reel Factory, Media Studio, image/video/voice generation, and agentic campaign operators with persona export. Sign in at https://app.pixasocial.com. Legal entity and New Mexico HQ: Pixasocial LLC, 1209 Mountain Road PL NE Ste N, Albuquerque, NM 87110, USA. This role is onsite/hybrid at that HQ. Careers listing: https://pixasocial.com/careers (currently LinkedIn-only; apply for this role by email as below). --- ## About the role Founding-team backend seat in Albuquerque. You will architect and build backend systems and AI-adjacent capabilities while sitting close to the people shipping the product—not a remote-only ticket queue. The surface area is real: auth and accounts, campaign and media APIs, psychographic services other engineers own in depth, inference job orchestration, publishing, billing-adjacent usage, persona export. We need someone who can pick a load-bearing piece, design it, ship it, and keep it up. This is mid-level with founding-team scope: you will work directly with founders and you will be in the product every week. Onsite/hybrid at Pixasocial LLC, 1209 Mountain Road PL NE Ste N, Albuquerque, NM 87110. We are not listing other offices. --- ## What you’ll do - Architect and implement backend systems that the app at https://app.pixasocial.com actually runs on: APIs, persistence, jobs, and the glue between generation, media, and publish. - Own slices of AI capability on the server side—job orchestration for image/video/voice, webhooks, status, retries—working with platform and psych-stack engineers rather than wrapping a model in a vacuum. - Make data models that survive a real SaaS: workspaces, assets in Media Studio, campaigns, channel connections, usage. - Tighten the path from “generate” to “schedule/post” so failures are visible and recoverable. - Raise the quality of boring things that early products skip: authz, auditability of publishes, migrations, backups of customer media metadata. - Sit with founders on sequencing: what we build this month vs. what we must not pretend is done. - Write the kind of docs and API notes a global remote engineer can use without pinging Albuquerque at 2 a.m. their time. - Live in the product. Register, build a campaign, publish a test post, export a persona if you can. Your cover letter should name the first backend fix, not a generic “I love startups.” --- ## What we’re looking for - Mid-level backend engineer who has taken services from sketch to production and on-call. - You’ll likely work with Python and/or TypeScript, HTTP APIs, queues, and Postgres. Comfort with files/object storage and third-party APIs (social, generation) matters more than a branded framework. - You can design a schema and an API, then change them without breaking mobile/web clients. - High agency. Founding-team energy means you will do unglamorous work (logs, migrations, a stuck publish job) without waiting for a PM ticket. - Able to work onsite/hybrid in Albuquerque, NM. Do not apply as fully remote for this listing. --- ## Nice to have - Prior early-stage or small-team backend where you were one of a few people on the server. - Experience with media pipelines, webhooks, or social-platform APIs. - Enough inference/job-queue literacy to debug a stuck generation without throwing it over the wall. - Comfort pairing with GTM on what “usage” and “workspace” mean for brands vs. creators. --- ## How to apply (required for the next interview round) We only advance people who have used the product. 1. Create a free account at https://app.pixasocial.com/register 2. Go through PixaSocial yourself: build an audience or campaign, generate content, try publishing/scheduling, and notice what is strong and what is broken. 3. Email ananya.sharma@pixasocial.com with subject `Backend Engineer (Early-Stage / Founding Team) — [Your name]`, your resume, and a cover letter that is not a CV rewrite. The letter must explain, specifically, how you would improve PixaSocial in this role: what you used, what you would change first, and why you are the person to do it. Applications without a product-based cover letter will not be selected for interview.

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Albuquerque, NM 87110