Backend Engineer - SDE 1

At Aftershoot, we’re building more than just AI tools; we’re building a global community of photographers who spend less time behind their screens and more time behind the lens. Every feature we create, every update we ship, is designed to make post-processing easier, faster, and smarter for photographers around the world. From culling to editing to retouching. Our AI tools do all the heavy lifting, so photographers can focus on what they do best: capturing moments, telling stories, and creating magic.

We’re a fast-growing, passionate team backed over 100K+ active users globally.

But we’re just getting started. Our mission is clear: solve the biggest pain points in photography, and keep evolving with photographers who use our tools daily.

If you care deeply about building meaningful products, working with curious and driven teammates, and being part of a team that genuinely loves what they do, we’d love to meet you.

Let’s create the future of AI in photography, together.

🚀Your Mission

We're seeking a Backend Engineer (SDE 1) with strong backend and cloud engineering skills to join our team. In this role, you'll build and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure leveraging cloud technologies, preferably GCP.

🎯What You Will Be Doing

• Own backend features end to end, from design and data modelling through to shipping, monitoring and improving them in production.

• Build scalable APIs and services for web products, working closely with frontend, product and design.

• Design reliable flows for transactions and third-party integrations, including retries, safe re-runs that don’t duplicate actions, and handling failures.

• Build systems that handle high-volume data and large files efficiently: storage, processing pipelines, caching and fast delivery.

• Run what you build: cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring and on-call ownership of your services.

• Raise the bar on code quality, system design and engineering practices in the team.

💪What We’re Looking For

• 1.5-2+ years building backend systems for product companies, ideally web or SaaS products used by real customers.

• Strong in at least one of Go, Node.js, Python or Java.

• Experience designing APIs and data models (SQL and NoSQL) that scale.

• Has owned at least one critical flow in production, e.g. payments, orders, billing or integrations with external partners.

• Hands-on with a public cloud (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure fine), Docker and infrastructure-as-code.

• Experience with monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus or similar) and debugging production issues.

Nice-to-Have (Bonus Skills)

• Familiarity with data pipelines and warehousing technologies is good to have.

• Experience with Kafka, PubSub, etc for event-driven architectures.

What happens after you apply?

1. Step 1: If your profile aligns with our vibe and requirements for the role, our people team will reach out to you for a brief phone call.

2. Step 2: If everything aligns, your next chat will be with one of your future team members to better understand the role and your experience.

3. Step 3: You will then be given a task - this helps us evaluate your thought process and help you showcase your expertise.

4. Step 4: If everything goes well, you will meet the leadership for a quick bar-raiser round.

5. Step 5: If you do manage to clear all rounds, this is the point we make an offer, shake hands, and welcome you to the team.

You will work with

1. Captain: Samrat

2. Team Members: Platform Team