Founding Senior Backend Engineer

Remote in Europe | Fluent English required

Join Foundway to shape the future of video analytics in a nascent fast-growing industry.

About Foundway

Foundway is building the AI OS for video. Our platform turns hours of footage into instantly-searchable knowledge : ask our agent a question, get the exact clip and a concise answer, plus automatic summaries, metadata, storylines, chapters, transcripts, highlights and repurposed social snippets.

Under the hood we blend multimodal foundation models, vector search and a purpose-built video analytics pipeline so teams in media, marketing, learning and product can work with their video, not against it. We have traction, laser-focused on product-market fit and ready to scale the core system that will power millions of video conversations.

Tasks

The Role

This is a high-ownership, high-impact position. You’ll make the core architectural and product decisions that shape Foundway’s future, ship production code end-to-end, and lay the engineering foundations for a multimillion-dollar SaaS. If you thrive on ambiguity, move quickly, and sweat the details of both system design, scalable platforms and multi-modal foundation models, you’ll feel right at home.

What You’ll Do

• Design & build a cloud-native backend that scales from dozens to millions of content workflows.
• Integrate AI services LLM APIs, image models, vector DBs into clean abstractions (no custom model training required, but you’ll set the patterns).
• Own infrastructure : set up CI / CD, monitoring and observability, and keep latency low and costs sane.
• Establish engineering culture with fast code reviews, test strategy, release cadence, lightweight docs.
• Own AI-automation workflow s evaluate and adopt AI coding agents and other developer-productivity tools to super-power our small engineering team.
• Collaborate directly with the Founder & early customers, turning pain points into product iterations and experiments in days, not quarters. You'll work closely with the Founder on launching experiments that drive product metrics.

Requirements

You’ll Be a Great Fit If You

Nice-to-Haves

Benefits

Why Foundway

Ready to build the backbone of a category-defining product?

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