Member of Technical Staff - Backend Software Engineer
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"Learning fast is an engineer’s superpower in the AI era." About Us: Viggle AI is a startup backed by top-tier investors such as a16z and TSFV. At the forefront of the GenAI revolution, we specialize in controllable video generation for content creators, offering advanced technology that empowers creators to realize their visions. Our rapidly growing app is loved by creators from Hollywood professionals to TikTokers, boasting over 45 million users and hosting the second-largest Discord community worldwide. What We're Looking For About the Role Viggle is building the next generation of AI-powered avatar and video generation. We're hiring a backend engineer to own and evolve our core platform — a Go-based business API serving millions of creators, and a distributed Python GPU pipeline that turns reference images and driving videos into high-quality avatar renders at scale. What You'll Do Architect and maintain highly scalable, distributed backend systems powering Viggle's global AI video generation platform across web and mobile clients Design and implement APIs that power video generation, character/asset management, the creator platform, and monetization (subscriptions, IAP, Stripe) Develop robust processing pipelines for ingesting user-uploaded videos and orchestrating GPU-heavy workloads (encoding, inpainting, rendering) in near real-time Productionize ML models from research to scale with our ML team, drive the technical vision for reliability, throughput, and cost efficiency across our GPU fleet — fast-fail coordination, resource reservation, credit safety, GPU utilization What You'll Bring 3 years of professional backend engineering experience Excellent proficiency in Go OR Python, with a strong ability and willingness to ramp up on the other — we don't expect day-one fluency in both. Our stack is Go (Gin, GORM) for business APIs and Python (FastAPI, asyncio, aiohttp) for GPU workers. Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale — worker coordination, queue-based pipelines, resource reservation, fault recovery Familiarity with message queues and event-driven architectures (Redis, RabbitMQ, Temporal, NATS, Kafka, or similar) Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration — Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices Bonus Points Experience operating GPU inference services in production (PyTorch / TensorRT / Triton) — model loading, warmup, CUDA memory management, OOM debugging Familiarity with video processing toolchains (FFmpeg, OpenCV, fMP4 / HLS streaming, PTS/timestamp handling) Background in workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow) or stream processing Benefits: 🚀 Dynamic startup culture—accelerate your skills and career growth 📈 Attractive equity packages and highly competitive salary 🩺 Comprehensive dental coverage 🍽️ Complimentary lunch, dinner, snacks, and a vibrant, fun office environment
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About Viggle AI
Viggle Inc. is an award winning mobile and web-based entertainment marketing platform that incentivizes content consumption through a patented rewards system. Media companies, brands, and consumers access the platform across Viggle Inc. entertainment properties including Viggle App, Wetpaint.com, NextGuide, Viggle Store, and Choose Digital, where we connect consumers across an increasingly fragmented entertainment landscape.
Wetpaint is a top 10 entertainment web destination for millennial women. Wetpaint’s rapid success is due to the company’s competitive advantage: obsessive innovation around knowing and serving its audience with an incredible digital experience. Wetpaint’s proprietary social technology enables it to understand what content its audience wants, where they want it, when they want it, how they want it.
NextGuide makes an award-winning platform targeting the entertainment industry, enabling it to efficiently spend and target promotional budgets and collect exponentially more and better data about actual audiences than ever before. The platform includes the NextGuide Reminder Button, a tool that helps TV networks, programmers and broadcasters build their audiences with detailed metrics and measurement.
Viggle.com and the in-app rewards section is home to Viggle, which offers access to an expansive collection of top digital entertainment – TV shows, movies, music and more. TV shows and movies can be enjoyed on connected TVs, mobile devices, or on your computer and include thousands of recent releases & blockbusters and seasons of TV shows. This content is made available through our partnership with M-GO.
Choose Digital is the first company to bring digital media as a point redemption option to the worldwide loyalty and incentive market. Choose Digital has partnerships with leading media companies to offer digital content via its turnkey marketplace for loyalty, incentive and frequent flyer programs.
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Member of Technical Staff - Backend Software Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
"Learning fast is an engineer’s superpower in the AI era." About Us: Viggle AI is a startup backed by top-tier investors such as a16z and TSFV. At the forefront of the GenAI revolution, we specialize in controllable video generation for content creators, offering advanced technology that empowers creators to realize their visions. Our rapidly growing app is loved by creators from Hollywood professionals to TikTokers, boasting over 45 million users and hosting the second-largest Discord community worldwide. What We're Looking For About the Role Viggle is building the next generation of AI-powered avatar and video generation. We're hiring a backend engineer to own and evolve our core platform — a Go-based business API serving millions of creators, and a distributed Python GPU pipeline that turns reference images and driving videos into high-quality avatar renders at scale. What You'll Do Architect and maintain highly scalable, distributed backend systems powering Viggle's global AI video generation platform across web and mobile clients Design and implement APIs that power video generation, character/asset management, the creator platform, and monetization (subscriptions, IAP, Stripe) Develop robust processing pipelines for ingesting user-uploaded videos and orchestrating GPU-heavy workloads (encoding, inpainting, rendering) in near real-time Productionize ML models from research to scale with our ML team, drive the technical vision for reliability, throughput, and cost efficiency across our GPU fleet — fast-fail coordination, resource reservation, credit safety, GPU utilization What You'll Bring 3 years of professional backend engineering experience Excellent proficiency in Go OR Python, with a strong ability and willingness to ramp up on the other — we don't expect day-one fluency in both. Our stack is Go (Gin, GORM) for business APIs and Python (FastAPI, asyncio, aiohttp) for GPU workers. Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale — worker coordination, queue-based pipelines, resource reservation, fault recovery Familiarity with message queues and event-driven architectures (Redis, RabbitMQ, Temporal, NATS, Kafka, or similar) Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration — Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices Bonus Points Experience operating GPU inference services in production (PyTorch / TensorRT / Triton) — model loading, warmup, CUDA memory management, OOM debugging Familiarity with video processing toolchains (FFmpeg, OpenCV, fMP4 / HLS streaming, PTS/timestamp handling) Background in workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow) or stream processing Benefits: 🚀 Dynamic startup culture—accelerate your skills and career growth 📈 Attractive equity packages and highly competitive salary 🩺 Comprehensive dental coverage 🍽️ Complimentary lunch, dinner, snacks, and a vibrant, fun office environment
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About Viggle AI
Viggle Inc. is an award winning mobile and web-based entertainment marketing platform that incentivizes content consumption through a patented rewards system. Media companies, brands, and consumers access the platform across Viggle Inc. entertainment properties including Viggle App, Wetpaint.com, NextGuide, Viggle Store, and Choose Digital, where we connect consumers across an increasingly fragmented entertainment landscape.
Wetpaint is a top 10 entertainment web destination for millennial women. Wetpaint’s rapid success is due to the company’s competitive advantage: obsessive innovation around knowing and serving its audience with an incredible digital experience. Wetpaint’s proprietary social technology enables it to understand what content its audience wants, where they want it, when they want it, how they want it.
NextGuide makes an award-winning platform targeting the entertainment industry, enabling it to efficiently spend and target promotional budgets and collect exponentially more and better data about actual audiences than ever before. The platform includes the NextGuide Reminder Button, a tool that helps TV networks, programmers and broadcasters build their audiences with detailed metrics and measurement.
Viggle.com and the in-app rewards section is home to Viggle, which offers access to an expansive collection of top digital entertainment – TV shows, movies, music and more. TV shows and movies can be enjoyed on connected TVs, mobile devices, or on your computer and include thousands of recent releases & blockbusters and seasons of TV shows. This content is made available through our partnership with M-GO.
Choose Digital is the first company to bring digital media as a point redemption option to the worldwide loyalty and incentive market. Choose Digital has partnerships with leading media companies to offer digital content via its turnkey marketplace for loyalty, incentive and frequent flyer programs.