Backend Engineer (Senior+)
Miris
Skill Required
Key highlights
- Target Base Salary Range: $102,693—$287,488 USD
- 7+ years minimum experience with backend services and API development
- Stock options are a significant portion of compensation
- Remote-first, globally distributed team
- Experience building high-traffic web services in Go
- Patented innovations in neural rendering (radiance fields, Gaussian splatting, AI-assisted graphics)
Role overview
At Miris, we believe ambitious work is deeply meaningful when supported by strong teamwork, purpose, and shared commitment to important outcomes. We're seeking skilled Backend Engineers to join our dynamic, fully remote team. As a remote-first company with a globally distributed team, we value thoughtful collaboration, accountability, and trust. Every candidate should have an ownership mindset and the opportunity to share in the success they help create, which is why stock options are a significant portion of this role's compensation package. As a cutting-edge technology company building the future of 3D content delivery at global scale, we're empowering creators to deliver high-fidelity, photorealistic 3D experiences to billions of users instantly, seamlessly, and across all major platforms and devices. Backed by patented innovations and state-of-the-art advancements in neural rendering, our platform unlocks the ability to deliver complex digital scenes without compromises on speed, cost, and scale.
Responsibilities
- Design backend services and the API layer for a multi-tenant streaming service
- Implement full customer-facing and enterprise-facing web server backend operating at scale
- Web app architecture and security
- Conduct code reviews, troubleshoot issues, and enhance existing codebases to improve global performance, scale, reliability, and maintainability
Requirements
- 7+ years minimum experience with backend services and API development
- Experience building high-traffic web services in Go
- Knowledge and understanding of distributed, highly available, and scalable cloud-based systems
- Knowledge and understanding of architecture and patterns for complex web services
- Experience designing and implementing RESTish APIs
- Experience working with containers and CDNs
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Flexible Spending Account for medical and dependent expenses
- Flexible working hours
- Generous PTO Program
- 401K plan
- Technology stipend
- Wellness stipend
- Equity options
Additional details
- Target Base Salary Range: $102,693—$287,488 USD
- Globally, benefits may vary depending on a candidate's location
- Miris is a remote-first company with a globally distributed team
- Stock options are a significant portion of this role's compensation package
- Company backed by patented innovations
- Leverages state-of-the-art advancements in neural rendering, including radiance fields, Gaussian splatting, and new AI-assisted graphics approaches
- Compensation philosophy: fair pay reflecting role value and market; equity options as key component
- Base salary influenced by role scope, complexity, responsibilities, internal equity, external market benchmarks, and candidate's knowledge, skills, and experience