About this role
ABOUT FLIPACLIP
FlipaClip https://flipaclip.com/es/ is the world’s biggest animation app with over +90 million lifetime installs.
FlipaClip turns any mobile device into an animation studio.
Animated movies and shows require massive budgets, years of production, or the approval of a handful of studios to exist. That’s how the industry has worked for decades.
Very soon, a blockbuster animated movie will be entirely produced by a 15-year old in her parent’s basement. On a phone. And it will be made and distributed for $0.
We are on it.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own the delivery and long-term operation of high-impact backend systems, from architecture to production.
- Set and evolve backend processes, engineering standards, and technical best practices.
- Define and actively use KPIs covering system reliability, development speed, data quality, and error rates.
- Make system-level architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs with a clear understanding of impact.
- Establish automated testing and validation processes that reduce regressions and operational risk.
- Introduce AI-assisted development workflows where they increase leverage, with strong validation and safety mechanisms.
- Communicate progress, risks, and technical decisions clearly across engineering and product stakeholders.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years building and maintaining with AWS
- Demonstrable experience delivering high-impact backend systems and projects that operate successfully in production
- Strong experience building backend services for mobile applications (iOS/Android)
- Ownership: Strong sense of ownership, strategic thinking, and a solution-first mindset
- Management: Creating structure where needed. Processes, standards, and objectives that teams actually follow.
- Product-minded: Able to balance engineering quality with pragmatic trade-offs to move fast.
- Customer-obsessed: Making technical decisions with a clear understanding of how they affect customers, product quality, and our overall business.
- Solid experience working with Node.js and TypeScript
- Strong understanding of modern React frameworks
- Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design and implementation
- Interest in or experience with Generative AI and related technologies
It is a MUST to have...
- Owned analytics infrastructure at a consumer or product-led company. Has taken Amplitude, Mixpanel, or Segment from messy to trustworthy. Used RevenueCat or other subscription tools. Used Appsflyer or other attribution tools. Defined event taxonomy, governance, reconciliation.
- Shipped experimentation infrastructure. A/B test data quality, variant assignment, SRM detection, trustworthy success metrics.
- Backend engineering depth on user or identity systems. Python or Node production. Debugged UUID, device ID, or session identity across login, logout, multi-device, reinstall.
- Has led 1 to 3 engineers. Set technical direction, upskilled non-data engineers.
- SQL-fluent at modeling level. Evidence to look for: Designed event schemas or metrics layers others relied on.
NICE TO HAVE
- Hands-on experience working on AI/ML or LLM-based products.
- Experience with NestJS framework
- Python experience, particularly with Apache Airflow or similar ETL tools
- Knowledge of Firebase (Authentication, Firestore, Remote Config)
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi or Terraform)
- Familiarity with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Signoz, or similar)
- Experience with video streaming technologies (HLS, MediaConvert)
- Knowledge of analytics platforms (Amplitude, MoEngage, or similar)
- Experience with ElasticSearch or similar search technologies
- Understanding of mobile app backend requirements (iOS/Android)
- Experience with subscription/payment integrations (Purchasely, RevenueCat, IAP)
OUR TECH STACK
Backend
- Node.js (14/16) with NestJS and Restify frameworks
- Python 3.9 for ETL and data pipelines
- Apache Airflow 2.7.3 for workflow orchestration
- JWT-based authentication
- Sequelize ORM
Frontend
- Next.js 15 with App Router
- React 18/19 with TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS for styling
- Zustand for state management
- SWR for data fetching
- Radix UI component library
- Infrastructure & DevOps
- AWS (ECS Fargate, S3, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, CloudFront, MediaConvert)
- Docker and Docker Compose
- Pulumi for Infrastructure-as-Code
- GitHub Actions for CI/CD
- Vercel for frontend deployments
Data & Storage
- MySQL and PostgreSQL (AWS RDS)
- Redis (AWS ElastiCache)
- ElasticSearch for search functionality
- Firebase Firestore
- AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2 for asset storage
Observability
- Signoz with OpenTelemetry (OTLP)
- Winston for structured logging
- Slack webhooks for alerting
THE SELECTION PROCESS
- Silver.dev Recruiter Screen
- Silver.dev Live Coding Screen
- Behavioral Screen with FlipaClip's CAO
- Work Experience Overview + some Technical Discussion with FlipaClip's COO
- Final Screen with FlipaClip's CEO
FlipaClip https://flipaclip.com/es/ is the world’s biggest animation app with over +90 million lifetime installs.
FlipaClip turns any mobile device into an animation studio.
Animated movies and shows require massive budgets, years of production, or the approval of a handful of studios to exist. That’s how the industry has worked for decades.
Very soon, a blockbuster animated movie will be entirely produced by a 15-year old in her parent’s basement. On a phone. And it will be made and distributed for $0.
We are on it.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own the delivery and long-term operation of high-impact backend systems, from architecture to production.
- Set and evolve backend processes, engineering standards, and technical best practices.
- Define and actively use KPIs covering system reliability, development speed, data quality, and error rates.
- Make system-level architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs with a clear understanding of impact.
- Establish automated testing and validation processes that reduce regressions and operational risk.
- Introduce AI-assisted development workflows where they increase leverage, with strong validation and safety mechanisms.
- Communicate progress, risks, and technical decisions clearly across engineering and product stakeholders.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years building and maintaining with AWS
- Demonstrable experience delivering high-impact backend systems and projects that operate successfully in production
- Strong experience building backend services for mobile applications (iOS/Android)
- Ownership: Strong sense of ownership, strategic thinking, and a solution-first mindset
- Management: Creating structure where needed. Processes, standards, and objectives that teams actually follow.
- Product-minded: Able to balance engineering quality with pragmatic trade-offs to move fast.
- Customer-obsessed: Making technical decisions with a clear understanding of how they affect customers, product quality, and our overall business.
- Solid experience working with Node.js and TypeScript
- Strong understanding of modern React frameworks
- Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design and implementation
- Interest in or experience with Generative AI and related technologies
It is a MUST to have...
- Owned analytics infrastructure at a consumer or product-led company. Has taken Amplitude, Mixpanel, or Segment from messy to trustworthy. Used RevenueCat or other subscription tools. Used Appsflyer or other attribution tools. Defined event taxonomy, governance, reconciliation.
- Shipped experimentation infrastructure. A/B test data quality, variant assignment, SRM detection, trustworthy success metrics.
- Backend engineering depth on user or identity systems. Python or Node production. Debugged UUID, device ID, or session identity across login, logout, multi-device, reinstall.
- Has led 1 to 3 engineers. Set technical direction, upskilled non-data engineers.
- SQL-fluent at modeling level. Evidence to look for: Designed event schemas or metrics layers others relied on.
NICE TO HAVE
- Hands-on experience working on AI/ML or LLM-based products.
- Experience with NestJS framework
- Python experience, particularly with Apache Airflow or similar ETL tools
- Knowledge of Firebase (Authentication, Firestore, Remote Config)
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi or Terraform)
- Familiarity with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Signoz, or similar)
- Experience with video streaming technologies (HLS, MediaConvert)
- Knowledge of analytics platforms (Amplitude, MoEngage, or similar)
- Experience with ElasticSearch or similar search technologies
- Understanding of mobile app backend requirements (iOS/Android)
- Experience with subscription/payment integrations (Purchasely, RevenueCat, IAP)
OUR TECH STACK
Backend
- Node.js (14/16) with NestJS and Restify frameworks
- Python 3.9 for ETL and data pipelines
- Apache Airflow 2.7.3 for workflow orchestration
- JWT-based authentication
- Sequelize ORM
Frontend
- Next.js 15 with App Router
- React 18/19 with TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS for styling
- Zustand for state management
- SWR for data fetching
- Radix UI component library
- Infrastructure & DevOps
- AWS (ECS Fargate, S3, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, CloudFront, MediaConvert)
- Docker and Docker Compose
- Pulumi for Infrastructure-as-Code
- GitHub Actions for CI/CD
- Vercel for frontend deployments
Data & Storage
- MySQL and PostgreSQL (AWS RDS)
- Redis (AWS ElastiCache)
- ElasticSearch for search functionality
- Firebase Firestore
- AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2 for asset storage
Observability
- Signoz with OpenTelemetry (OTLP)
- Winston for structured logging
- Slack webhooks for alerting
THE SELECTION PROCESS
- Silver.dev Recruiter Screen
- Silver.dev Live Coding Screen
- Behavioral Screen with FlipaClip's CAO
- Work Experience Overview + some Technical Discussion with FlipaClip's COO
- Final Screen with FlipaClip's CEO
Tech stack
AWSNode.jsTypeScriptReactDockerPython
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