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# Backend Engineer, Product

- **Company:** MIDJOURNEY, INC.
- **Location:** United States
- **Salary:** $175,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Integrity, Relational Databases, PostgreSQL, Software Engineering, Indexer, Backend, Build Management, Stripe, Front End Software Development, Api Design, Discord
- **Published:** July 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d6e6ef3d98b81053

## About the Role

* You have strong instincts for API design and data modeling, and prefer getting the model right before writing the code.
 * You have deep experience with relational databases, especially Postgres, including schema design, indexing, query performance, and live migrations.
 * You think of permissions, privacy, and access control as product problems, not just technical ones.
 * You enjoy working closely with product, design, and frontend engineers from the earliest stages of a project.
 * AI tools are part of your development workflow, and you're always looking for better ways to build software.
 * You communicate clearly and work well across disciplines.
 * You care about the people around you as much as the code. Great engineering teams make each other better.

## Description

* Work with product, design, and frontend engineers from concept onward, owning the backend of user-facing features end to end.
 * Design and build the systems behind features like sharing, profiles, moodboards, style galleries, and subscriptions, where privacy and data integrity are central to the product.
 * Design and own the APIs that power our web, mobile, Discord, and public integrations.
 * Build account and billing systems, including subscriptions, entitlements, usage accounting, data export, and deletion.
 * Design schemas, evolve them safely under live traffic, and ship work that reaches millions of people within days., * Sharing, social graph, or permission systems that grew from prototype to scale.
 * Billing or subscription systems (Stripe or similar), or public/partner API design.
 * Privacy and compliance-facing work: data export, deletion, retention.

Why Midjourney:

 * Speed of a startup, freedom and resources of a research lab. No investors, no quarterly reporting cycle, no committees deciding the roadmap.
 * Tiny team, large ambitions. Decisions show up in production within days, in front of one of the largest creative communities in the world.


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