About the role
About the role Variant is seeking a Founding Backend Engineer to own the backend of our code generation platform. Software should be beautiful, and Variant aims to provide generative creativity, allowing users to explore endless designs from a single idea. This role is for an engineer who is passionate about building sophisticated, performant, and scalable backend systems for AI-powered design tools. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of impactful work at companies known for their sophisticated backend engineering, major contributions to notable open-source projects, or a seriously impressive portfolio of complex backend builds. Experience with chat applications, reliable streaming, headless browser automation (Puppeteer/Chromium), and managing complex project state is highly desirable. We are looking for someone obsessed with performance, reliability, and scalability, who is fully committed to the hard work of a startup, and who doesn't compromise between quality and shipping fast. Your code will have a significant and compounding impact from day one. This will be the most meaningful work of your career. We work from a beautiful space in San Francisco, dreaming up the future and making it real together. Variant is well-capitalized and backed by notable investors.
About Variant
Creative Intelligence
