Software Engineer | Backend

About Us

Surreal is where the world’s leading talent manages their AI likeness. While we’re currently in stealth mode, we’re excited to share more with you as we grow our team.

The Role

As a Software Engineer at Surreal, you’ll work with our small, highly-skilled team to build innovative, high-impact products. You’ll play a critical role in shaping our tech stack, optimizing performance, and ensuring that our solutions scale effectively. This is a dynamic, fast-paced role where you’ll have the freedom to design, build, and iterate on high-quality software that delivers real value to our customers.

If you thrive in a startup environment, are excited by the challenge of building something new, and are ready to take ownership of your work, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Feature Ownership: Take full ownership of features from ideation through development and into production, iterating based on customer feedback.

• Collaboration & Communication: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to bring features to life in a way that meets both customer needs and technical feasibility.

• Code Quality & Best Practices: Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code, adhering to best practices in testing, security, and documentation.

• Orchestration: Comfortable integrating various services across the entire stack, ensuring a seamless, performant experience for our users.

• Optimization & Performance: Continuously monitor and optimize system performance to meet the demands of a growing user base.

About You

• Experienced: You have 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in a fast-paced environment, ideally with a background in startups.

• Full-Stack: Fluent across backend and frontend, with a solid grasp of data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, deployment practices, and relational databases.

• Gen-AI Tinkerer: You’re someone who’s been hands-on with generative AI, experimenting, testing, and creatively solving real-world problems with it.

• Product-Oriented Mindset: You understand the importance of building with the end user in mind and value customer feedback as a key component of development.

• Adaptable and Resourceful: You’re comfortable working in an evolving environment where priorities shift, and challenges are welcomed.

• Team Player: Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving, which contribute to a positive team culture.

Why Surreal?

• Impact: You’ll be part of a small, fast-growing team where your contributions have an immediate impact.

• Ownership: High autonomy to innovate and take ownership of your work, with the support to turn ideas into reality.

• Growth: Work in an environment that encourages continuous learning, skill development, and personal growth.

• Cutting-Edge Tech: Work on solutions that leverage generative AI at the forefront of technology.

If you’re excited about building something truly unique, working with cutting-edge technology, and being part of a collaborative and ambitious team, we’d love to hear from you!