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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Backend Engineer - **Company:** Creative Fabrica - **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Query Performance, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Automation of Tests, Big Data, Software as a Service, Profiling, Code Review, Relational Databases, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Open Source Technology, Software Architecture, Transcoding, AI Infrastructure, Backend, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Machine Learning Operations, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Grpc, Golang, Microservices - **Published:** September 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/creativefabrica/jobs/4972617101 ## About the Role * Extensive experience building and scaling backend services in Go in high-traffic, high-volume SaaS environments. * Proven ability to design distributed microservice architectures, including asynchronous processing (Kafka, SQS), low-latency service communication (gRPC, ConnectRPC or GraphQL) and long-running or resource-intensive workloads with queueing, backpressure and retry strategies. * Deep AWS knowledge (EKS, S3, Lambda) alongside solid relational database skills, ideally Postgres: schema design, query performance and handling growth. * Strong production discipline: observability, performance profiling, debugging live systems, code review and automated testing. * Comfortable owning and documenting architectural decisions. Good written and spoken English. * Strong sense of ownership over the reliability and quality of the systems you build, and over whether they actually perform for users rather than just read well. * Pragmatic and self-directed; defines an approach without a fully specified brief, balances engineering quality against product goals, and ships dependable systems at pace rather than over-engineering. * Strong written communicator who documents decisions by default, takes direct feedback well, and works effectively in a distributed team with limited real-time overlap., * Media processing experience such as video transcoding, audio synthesis or vector manipulation. * AI infrastructure experience: model serving at scale, GPU-accelerated workloads, integrating third-party or open-source generative models into production, and cost optimisation for compute-heavy jobs. * Background in a startup or other fast-moving, distributed environment, with an interest in helping shape product direction. ## Description You will work closely with our other backend engineers, platform engineers, and Product to turn raw model output into a polished product experience. This is not primarily an API-building role. The difficulty sits in orchestration: coordinating expensive inference across media domains, handling partial failure gracefully and keeping latency predictable under load. You will have significant technical freedom. Sometimes you will pick up a defined problem; other times you will be given an objective and expected to define the architecture yourself. Your overlap with our Amsterdam headquarters will mostly be asynchronous, so you should be comfortable working independently. Our stack: Go, Kafka, SQS, gRPC, ConnectRPC, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS (EKS, S3, Lambda). What you will do: * Design and scale Go microservices that manage the full lifecycle of an AI generation. * Optimise our ConnectRPC services and asynchronous pipelines (Kafka, SQS) to handle long-running, resource-intensive inference without compromising platform stability. * Build the backend logic behind advanced features, including multimodal orchestration across images, video, audio, 3D and vector. * Work with AWS to manage large data throughput and integrate with high-performance storage and compute clusters. * Collaborate with external providers and Product to bridge the gap between model output and production user experience. * Make and document architectural decisions on concurrency, queueing, backpressure and failure handling as the pipeline scales. * Improve reliability and latency across the generation path, and own the observability needed to see both clearly. * Own quality end to end: code review, testing strategy and on-call readiness for the services you build. * Integrate new frontier models into production workflows quickly and safely. * Contribute to technical direction across the wider backend platform, not only your own services. * Stay current with distributed systems practice, AI infrastructure and model-serving developments. ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Exploring the Power of gRPC-Gateway for Writing RESTful Services](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2072-exploring-the-power-of-grpc-gateway-for-writing-restful-services) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [Putting the Graph In GraphQL With The Neo4j GraphQL Library](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/257-putting-the-graph-in-graphql-with-the-neo4j-graphql-library) - [Boosting OpenSearch Performance: gRPC Search in Action](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1964-boosting-opensearch-performance-grpc-search-in-action) - [Scoring 2000 Products per Request: Performance Pitfalls in Golang](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2073-scoring-2000-products-per-request-performance-pitfalls-in-golang) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [The 7 Most Popular Backend Frameworks for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/403-the-7-most-popular-backend-frameworks-for-developers)