About the job

BetterGroup (the team behind BetterPic and BetterStudio) is a profitable AI startup scaling fast, millions in revenue, millions of requests, and increasing GPU workloads across multiple products. On BetterPic, our AI makes professional headshots accessible to anyone, fast, affordable, and 4K studio-quality. Now we’re expanding into B2B, building high-impact workflows for teams and partners. On BetterStudio we’re solving photoshoots for fashion ecommerce.

We’re looking for a Founding Backend Engineer to own and scale the backend systems that power our core platforms. If you love building stable, fast, production-grade APIs with autonomy and purpose, read on.

Team Perks

Meet your Team

All headshots generated using Betterpic ❤️

About you

What You’ll Work On

Your Impact:

• Architect and evolve our Node.js backend to support large-scale B2B use cases

• Build fast, secure APIs powering dashboards, integrations, and automation tools

• Lead TypeScript migrations and API versioning with a release-focused mindset

• Optimize PostgreSQL schemas for multi-tenant and team-based access

• Work closely with product and frontend to ship, test, and iterate quickly
  

Tech Challenges You’ll Tackle:

• Secure and performant public APIs (auth, rate limiting, usage tracking)

• Building scalable RBAC and permission systems for complex teams

• Designing resilient async job systems using queues and workers

• Working with AWS services (S3, SES, Cloudfront) and managing infrastructure config

• Optimizing performance for high-concurrency workloads

• Implementing advanced caching strategies with Redis to reduce latency

• Architecting systems for zero-downtime deployments and horizontal scaling

• Ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) for B2B clients

Daily Responsibilities

• Own backend feature development with speed and precision

• Coordinate API specs and updates with the fullstack team

• Proactively monitor performance, logs, and stability

• Triage and resolve backend bugs and edge cases in real time

• Help guide backend best practices, deployment pipelines, and testing strategy
  

What You Need

Must-Have:

• 4+ years backend experience with Node.js (ideally 8+ total dev experience)

• Strong with Express, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, OpenAPI and migrations

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and job queues

• Experience maintaining production apps with release processes and sprints

• Good communicator, async-first mindset, comfortable in startup pace

• Ability to reason about system design, scale, and maintainability
  

Bonus Points:

• Built RBAC systems or multi-tenant team apps before

• Familiar with rate limiting, auth strategies, and API usage metering

• Used AWS in production (EC2, S3, SES, etc.)

• You’ve shipped B2B tools, internal platforms, or SaaS dashboards

Our Stack

• Backend: Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS

• Frontend: Nuxt 3, Vue 3, TypeScript, TailwindCSS

• Infra: AWS (S3, SES, Cloudfront), Render, Cloudflare, Supabase
  
  

Tools: GitHub, Prettier, Slack, Asana

Application Process

1. Fill out this form

2. [Take Home] Coding Challenge (1-3 hours)

• 2.1. Small development challenge

• 2.2. Brief [5 minutes max] Loom video explaining functionality, implementation and design decisions

3. Interview with the CTO (30 minutes)

4. Interview with the rest of the management team (30 minutes)

5. Offer from BetterPic

Final Notes
This is not a “just-maintain-things” backend gig. You’ll be building what powers the B2B engine of a profitable, high-growth AI company.

We encourage AI usage in your workflow, but real ownership, communication, and decision-making are what set you apart.

Let’s build something lasting.