Join Cardboard as a Senior Backend Engineer and own the systems powering browser-based video editing, including media processing, exports, proxies, analysis, and agent-powered editing.

Company Details
Cardboard is building the future of storytelling and video editing through an AI-powered browser-based video editor. The team is backed by a Tier-1 global fund, YC, and founders of billion-dollar companies. Website: https://www.usecardboard.com

Requirements

- 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer
- Strong experience owning and operating production backend systems.
- Strong understanding of state management, queues, workers, storage, databases, and service contracts.
- Experience designing scalable APIs and backend services.
- Ability to design reliable systems for long-running and asynchronous workflows.
- Solid problem-solving and end-to-end ownership.
- Experience with one or more of TypeScript, Go, Rust, or Python.
- Ability to translate product requirements into practical backend architecture.
- Strong understanding of performance, reliability, and operational simplicity.
- Interest in media processing, video infrastructure, and creative tools.
- Bonus:



Deep FFmpeg or GStreamer experience.
- Bonus: Knowledge of video codecs and formats such as ProRes, H.264/H.265, BRAW, R3D, and DNx.

Responsibilities

- Own backend systems for video exports, proxy generation, media preprocessing, analysis, and agent-powered editing.
- Design and maintain APIs and state contracts across the browser, workers, storage, and database.
- Build reliable workflows for uploads, processing jobs, exports, progress tracking, and recovery.
- Improve performance and reliability of long-running media workflows.
- Design systems that remain simple and operable as projects, files, and usage scale.
- Work closely with founders and engineers to solve complex video infrastructure problems.
- Turn product goals such as faster exports and instant-feeling uploads into robust backend systems.

Job Details
Bengaluru, India

Interview Process

- Recruiter Screen
- Backend Technical Interview
- System Design Interview
- Coding Interview
- Founder Interview

Important Note
ClanX is a recruitment partner, helping Cardboard hire Senior Backend Engineer.

📌 Senior Backend Engineer (Go, Rust, Python, TS) - Bengaluru (India)
🏢 ClanX
📍 India