Senior Backend Engineer – Video Streaming Platform

About the role

You’ll own a large share of Seera’s backend: the APIs that power our mobile and web apps, and the AWS infrastructure they run on. You’ll work directly with the CTO and our engineering manager, and you’ll shape how we architect video delivery, payments, and content operations as we grow from thousands to millions of users. This is a senior, high‑ownership role – we’re looking for someone who has already built and operated systems at scale and wants to do it again with more autonomy.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend APIs for content catalog, playback, accounts, entitlements, coin wallets, and subscriptions.
• Own our AWS environment end‑to‑end: architecture, IaC, IAM, networking, cost management, observability, and CI/CD.
• Build and operate the video pipeline – ingest, transcoding, packaging (HLS/DASH), DRM, and CDN delivery – optimized for mobile networks across MENA.
• Integrate third‑party services (payments, carrier billing, ad mediation, analytics) reliably and securely.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and on‑call practices for a consumer streaming product.
• Raise the engineering bar through technical design docs, code reviews, and mentoring across a distributed team.

Required profile

• 5–8 years building production backend systems, with experience on consumer products at meaningful scale.
• Deep hands‑on AWS experience – ECS/EKS or Lambda, RDS/DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, MediaConvert.
• Experience with video systems, transcoding, adaptive bitrate streaming, CDN configuration, or DRM strongly preferred.
• Strong judgment on API design, authentication, data modeling, caching, and performance under load.
• Comfortable working autonomously in a remote, async‑first team across multiple time zones.
• Professional working proficiency in English; Arabic is a plus but not required.

Required skills

• AWS
• ECS
• EKS
• Lambda
• RDS
• DynamoDB
• S3
• CloudFront
• MediaConvert
• Video transcoding
• HLS
• DASH
• DRM
• CDN
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

What we offer

• Full‑time employment with direct ownership of core infrastructure at an early‑stage streaming company.
• Fully remote work within Eastern Europe, Azerbaijan or MENA.
• Salary of $2,000 USD per month.