Founding Senior Backend Engineer

About Us

At Post Up, we’re building the future of professional filmmaking. We’ve been focused on automation for the Post Production process, ensuring that artists have access to tools that accelerate their talent and workflows. We believe in tackling big challenges, moving fast, and creating meaningful impact for our customers and community.

We’re a tight-knit team of builders, problem solvers, and innovators. Joining us means being part of an environment where curiosity is encouraged, collaboration is baked-in, and your work directly shapes the future of our product.

If you’re excited about building scalable technology, working on cutting-edge problems in the media space, and having a visible impact from day one - let’s talk.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build core APIs and services that power our product. You’ll focus on performance, scalability, and reliability, ensuring we can serve millions of requests with speed and accuracy.

What You’ll Do

Design and implement services thatinterface with distributed storage systems to maximize throughput and reliability.

Architect and implement backend services, APIs, and data pipelines.

Optimize databases and data flows for high availability and performance.

Write clean, testable, and maintainable code.

Collaborate with frontend, product, and infra teams to deliver end-to-end features.

Contribute to code reviews and mentor junior engineers.

What We’re Looking For

5+ years of backend engineering experience.

Proficiency in Golang, TypeScript, Python.

Experience with distributed filesystems, HPC storage, or large-scale I/O optimization is a strong plus.

Experience with relational databases (Postgres) and caching systems (Redis).

Understanding of distributed systems, messaging/queues, and API design.

Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes).

Why You’ll Love Working Here

Competitive compensation and equity.

Flexible, remote-friendly culture.

Opportunities to make an immediate impact on product direction.

Support for professional growth: conferences, courses, learning budget.

A culture that values autonomy, trust, and continuous improvement.

Location Preference: This role is open to candidates based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We operate as a remote-friendly team, but some overlap with the Pacific Time Zone is required.

Compensation Range: CA$136K - CA$159K