Summary
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Own a significant part of the backend for a rapidly growing digital media platform. You will design and operate APIs and AWS infrastructure, shape architecture for content delivery, payments, and operational workflows, and help scale systems from thousands to millions of users. This is a high-autonomy role for an engineer experienced in operating systems at scale.
Highlights
High-ownership senior backend role with direct influence over architecture, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and scalability. Work closely with engineering leadership while helping evolve systems from thousands to millions of users.
Description
About Seera
Seera is an Arabic-language microdrama streaming platform built for the MENA market.
We produce and distribute short-form vertical series and monetize through a hybrid model of in-app coins and subscriptions.
We're a small founding team with a distributed engineering group across Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, scaling the platform to handle rapid growth in viewers, content, and transactions.
The role
You'll own a large share of Seera's backend: the APIs that power our mobile and web apps, and the AWS infrastructure they run on.
You'll work directly with the CTO and our engineering manager, and you'll shape how we architect video delivery, payments, and content operations as we grow from thousands to millions of users.
This is a senior, high-ownership role — we're looking for someone who has already built and operated systems at scale and wants to do it again with more autonomy.
What you'll do
Design, build, and maintain backend APIs for content catalog, playback, accounts, entitlements, coin wallets, and subscriptions
Own our AWS environment end to end: architecture, IaC, IAM, networking, cost management, observability, and CI/CD
Build and operate the video pipeline — ingest, transcoding, packaging (HLS/DASH), DRM, and CDN delivery — optimized for mobile networks across MENA
Integrate third-party services (payments, carrier billing, ad mediation, analytics) reliably and securely
Establish monitoring, alerting, and on-call practices for a consumer streaming product
Raise the engineering bar: technical design docs, code review, and mentoring across a distributed team
What we're looking for
5–8 years building production backend systems, with at least some of that on consumer products at meaningful scale
Deep hands-on AWS experience - ECS/EKS or Lambda, RDS/DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, MediaConvert
Experience with video systems, transcoding, adaptive bitrate streaming, CDN configuration, or DRM strongly preferred
Strong judgment on API design, auth, data modeling, caching, and performance under load
Comfortable working autonomously in a remote, async-first team across multiple time zones
Professional working proficiency in English; Arabic is a plus but not required
Nice to have
Payments or subscription billing systems
Prior startup or 0→1 experience
What we offer
Full-time employment with direct ownership of core infrastructure at an early-stage streaming company
Fully remote within Eastern Europe, Azerbaijan or MENA
