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PlotPix is building the stack for the world’s highest-quality AI video production — from series to movies.

Our productions are already live on the PlotPix app, delivering emotionally addictive, binge-worthy fiction designed for short episodes and fast audience payoff.

We’re building at the intersection of AI, storytelling, video generation and entertainment, and are looking for engineers excited to work on this rapidly evolving space.

About the Role

We’re looking for an SDE – Backend Focused with strong MERN stack fundamentals and a genuine interest in building with AI.

You’ll primarily work with Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, REST APIs and GCP, while also getting hands-on exposure to AI agents, model orchestration, video AI, model fine-tuning and scalable AI architectures.

This is a highly hands-on role where you’ll own features end-to-end, work closely with engineers, product and design teams, and contribute to technical and architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI agent architectures and orchestration workflows.
• Work with AI/video generation models, including model experimentation and fine-tuning.
• Design, develop and maintain scalable backend services and REST APIs using Node.js and Express.js.
• Design and optimize MongoDB/NoSQL databases, schemas, queries and aggregation pipelines.
• Develop robust APIs for web and mobile applications.
• Write clean, maintainable, efficient and well-tested code.
• Implement authentication, authorization, data validation and API security best practices.
• Optimize backend performance, API response times and database queries.
• Integrate third-party APIs, payment gateways and external services.
• Work with authentication, authorization, OAuth and API security.
• Debug production issues and proactively improve system reliability and performance.
• Work closely with frontend engineers to define API contracts and build seamless integrations.
• Monitor backend services and troubleshoot issues across development and production environments.
• Contribute to system design, architecture and scalability as the product grows.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and help establish engineering best practices.

Tech Stack

MUST HAVE

• 2–5 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with MERN stack, specially Node.js.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript / TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB / NoSQL databases.
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs.
• Good understanding of backend architecture and database design.
• Working experience with React.js.
• Experience with Redis / caching.
• Working knowledge of GCP and cloud infrastructure.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization and API security.
• Experience with OAuth.
• Experience with payment gateway integrations.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Good understanding of Git and version control.

GOOD TO HAVE

• Experience with AI/LLM APIs or AI-powered products.
• Exposure to AI agents, agentic workflows or AI orchestration.
• Experience working with or fine-tuning AI/video generation models.
• Experience with Claude, Codex or similar AI coding/development tools.
• Experience with Docker and CI/CD.
• Knowledge of AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with message queues/event-driven architecture, such as BullMQ or RabbitMQ.
• Experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Understanding of system design and distributed systems.
• Exposure to microservices architecture.
• Experience with Flutter or mobile application development.

What We’re Looking For

• A strong backend engineer who enjoys building products, not just writing code.
• Someone with solid engineering fundamentals who is excited to learn and work with AI technologies.
• Ability to take ownership of features from design and development through deployment and production.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to independently investigate and resolve technical issues.
• Someone comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment where requirements evolve quickly.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Curiosity and willingness to experiment with new technologies and approaches.
• A mindset focused on building scalable, reliable and maintainable systems.

What We Offer

• Work at the intersection of AI, video generation and entertainment.
• Build products that are already being used by a growing audience.
• Work in an AI-first, fast-moving startup environment.
• Get hands-on exposure to AI agents, video AI, model fine-tuning and AI infrastructure.
• High ownership and the opportunity to make meaningful technical decisions.
• Work closely with the founding and product teams and see your work go from idea to production.
• Opportunity to work on problems that are still being defined rather than simply implementing established solutions.

Apply with your resume and share your GitHub, portfolio or any projects you’ve built.

Pay: ₹1,000,000.00 - ₹1,600,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Provident Fund

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Bangalore City, Bengaluru, Karnataka: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Notice period? (In days)
• Anything you would like to share?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Full-stack development: 2 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person