# Backend Engineer at Cardboard, Inc

Backend Engineer at Cardboard, Inc in Bengaluru. On-site, full-time. Posted August 13, 2026.

- Company: Cardboard, Inc
- Location: Bengaluru
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Experience: 8+ years
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cardboard/71a37ec3-d1df-4769-b018-a1c8f986bc1f/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/backend-engineer-cardboard-inc-yrv4w3

## Description

### About

- We're building the future of storytelling and video editing.

- We're a small team that moves fast and builds things we're proud of.

- We care obsessively about taste: in design, in product, in every detail.

- We're solving these hard problems.

- We're backed by a Tier-1 global fund, YC, and founders of billion dollar companies.

### Engineering

Cardboard is a video editor you can talk to. Behind it are proxy transcodes, parallel exports, GPU analysis, AI generation, and the credits that pay for it all.
We're hiring a Backend Engineer to own those systems as products, measured by how fast they are, how often they fail, and what they cost.

### What you'll own

- Exports, media processing, and generation.

- Long-running jobs that recover on their own and report honest progress.

- Credits and usage, charged fairly and never twice.

### Who you are

- You've owned production backend systems while the product kept changing.

- You think clearly about state, queues, and workers, and you care about cost as much as speed.

- You're strong in TypeScript, and comfortable in Python.

- Bonus: deep FFmpeg or codec experience.

### How we work

- You own outcomes, not tickets: decide what to build, ship it, and check it worked.

- You talk to users and look at the data.

- You build with AI agents every day, and you're the taste and judgment in the loop.

### What success looks like

Within your first six months:

- Exports and processing are measurably faster and fail less often.

- You know what each kind of job costs us, and the biggest costs have come down.

### What you get

You'd be surrounded by people who are absurdly good at what they do. One started coding at 11 and shipped an app with 6M+ downloads in high school. One got into CS engineering at 14 and has been working on distributed systems for 8+ years. One's an ex-founder who took a company to 1.2M users and $300M+ in transactions. That's the team. We're looking for someone who'll raise the bar on technical craftsmanship and product quality. Apart from that you'd get:

- Competitive salary and founding-team equity.

- Unlimited tokens across every AI model. Use whatever you want, as much as you want.

- A healthy budget for AI tools and any peripherals you need to do your best work.