BackEnd Engineer

Are you passionate about building scalable backend systems that power real-world products at scale? Do you enjoy designing clean architectures, owning core services, and working across data, content, and monetization domains? Join Pixellot’s Content & Monetization Engineering Team, where you’ll help build the foundational services that power the company’s next generation of sports content and monetization products. This is a hands-on backend engineering role focused on designing, building, and maintaining scalable microservices and data-driven systems in production environments. At Pixellot, we are revolutionizing sports production through AI-powered solutions that automatically capture, analyze, and transform sports events into personalized experiences for players, teams, leagues, and fans worldwide. As a Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the infrastructure and services behind our content generation, highlights, metadata, and monetization platforms, directly impacting the company’s growth and future vision as a Data-as-a-Service company. As part of your role, you will: •  Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs. • Develop microservices using technologies such as NestJS and Python. • Work on systems related to content generation, highlights, metadata processing, monetization flows, and integrations. • Collaborate closely with AI researchers, data engineers, product managers, and frontend engineers. • Take ownership of production systems, including observability, reliability, scalability, and performance. • Participate in architectural decisions and help define engineering standards and best practices. • Work with cloud-native technologies, asynchronous workflows, distributed systems, and modern AI-driven development methodologies. • Contribute to the evolution of the company’s data and content infrastructure.

Requirements: • 3-5 years of hands-on experience in backend development, building scalable production systems. • Strong proficiency in Node.js (TypeScript), preferably NestJS, and experience with Python. • Experience designing and developing microservices, REST APIs, and distributed systems. • Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native environments. • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases. • Solid understanding of software architecture, performance, and scalability. • Experience using AI-powered development tools as part of the development workflow. • Strong ownership, problem-solving skills, and ability to work independently. • B.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.