Backend Engineer

📍 Bengaluru, India⚡ On-site💰 Salary not disclosed⏱ Full-time🎓 0++ exp

About the role

Cardboard is hiring a Backend Engineer to own the serious backend systems that make its in-browser video editor work: proxy transcodes for smooth 4K playback, a fan-out export pipeline rendering chunks in parallel, analysis workers, and an agent service turning natural language into timeline operations. You'll design services, job flows, and data models that stay fast and correct under messy real-world media.

What you'll do

Own backend systems for exports, proxies, media preprocessing, analysis, and agent-powered editing

Maintain the APIs and state contracts between the browser, workers, storage, and database

Improve long-running media workflows: uploads, exports, processing jobs, progress, and recovery

Keep the backend simple enough to operate as projects, files, and usage grow

What we're looking for

0++ years of relevant experience

Experience owning production backend systems and keeping them healthy as the product changed

Clear thinking about state, queues, workers, files, and the contracts between them

Ability to turn product goals like faster exports or instant-feeling uploads into a practical backend plan

Genuine care about media - formats, codecs, model output, processing time, and final quality

Language-flexible - comfortable in TypeScript, Go, Rust, or Python depending on the problem

Nice to have

Deep FFmpeg or GStreamer experienceCodec internals knowledge across formats like ProRes, H.264/H.265, BRAW, R3D, DNx

*Since this application happens externally, we can't share status updates or feedback for this role.

Role details

SalarySalary not disclosed

LocationBengaluru, India

Work modelOn-site

TypeFull-time

Experience0+ years

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