Software Engineer, Backend
Union Square, New York City · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Union Square, New York City
About the role
- Backend engineering at Mirage involves working across product, platform, and machine learning to build systems, services, APIs, and ML pipelines.
- Engineers own critical backend systems end-to-end, partnering with product, design, client, and AI teams to deliver scalable production systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own backend systems end-to-end, including services, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure.
- Solve complex technical challenges across distributed systems, scaling, concurrency, and performance.
- Integrate and operate large generative AI models in production.
- Deploy, serve, and scale systems that combine internal research and external capabilities.
- Instrument, experiment, and iterate in production to improve system and product quality.
- Design and operate core platform infrastructure, including integrations with third-party providers, storage systems, and security.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional industry experience.
- Track record of shipping high-impact systems and/or products in production.
- Exceptional problem solving fundamentals and ability to learn.
- Excellent engineering taste combined with a strong sense of practicality and time-management.
- Ability to operate effectively in an extremely fast-paced environment.
- Ability to scope and deliver projects end-to-end.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- 401K with employer match
- Commuter Benefits
- Catered lunch multiple days per week
- Dinner stipend for late work
- Grubhub subscription
- Health & Wellness Perks
- Multiple team offsites per year
- Monthly team events
- Generous PTO policy
Workplace
- All roles require being in-person at the NYC HQ located in Union Square.
Skills
- APIs
- Distributed Systems
- Generative AI
- ML Pipelines
- Infrastructure
