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title: 'Senior Backend Engineer at 90 Seconds'
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# Senior Backend Engineer at 90 Seconds

- **Company:** 90 Seconds
- **Location:** Auckland, New Zealand
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2018-09-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/90seconds/bab969de-fb65-4e89-b20e-3c1b18506836

## Job description

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who will oversee the creation and delivery of the 90 Seconds products. In this role, you'll be a part of a collaborative team of empowered and accountable people focused on the same vision and priorities, solving the right problems for 90 Seconds users.

90 Seconds provides an end-to-end solution to manage all aspects of high-quality video creation via a global video creation platform for Brands and Creators. Our sights are set a whole lot higher and we're looking for that determined someone who’s obsessive about building great products that change users' experience for the better.

## What You'll Love Doing

- Own the backend and infrastructure. Look after reliability, performance, monitoring and incident response for a platform that's live and growing.
- Own security. Cover identity and access, multi-tenant data isolation, secrets and audit, and make sure we stand up to enterprise security reviews.
- Grow the platform. Work with the team to design and ship new capabilities, and keep the architecture clean as it grows.
- Lead and mentor. Be the senior engineering voice on the team, review designs and code, and set standards. There's room to grow into an engineering manager role.
- Push our AI-first development further. Improve how we work with Claude Code and agents, so a small team can keep moving fast without breaking things.
- Communicate across the company. Explain technical trade-offs in plain English to founders, ops, finance, sales and customers, and write clear plans and incident reports.

## Who You Are

- An excellent communicator, both written and spoken. This matters as much as your technical skills. You explain complex things simply, write clearly and briefly, and are comfortable working with anyone in the company. Excellent English.
- Based in New Zealand, with the right to work here.
- 10+ years of senior backend experience building and running production systems.
- Strong infrastructure experience, ideally on GCP: containers, managed Postgres, event-driven systems, Terraform, CI/CD and observability.
- Security built in from the start, not bolted on afterwards.
- Real, hands-on experience developing with AI. You already work with Claude Code or similar, and you know how to keep quality high when agents write most of the code.
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js, with GraphQL and relational data modelling.

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## Nice to Have

- Experience leading engineers.
- Marketplace or B2B SaaS background.
- Payments experience.
- Building LLM-powered features and agents in production.

## Our Values

- Be the Customer. Know, listen and live the experience of the customer. Think, talk, see, and ask like the customer. Then create value and build trust with the customer.
- We are live. Our team is nimble, focused, and ready to act together now to create value for the customer, that is live in over 100 countries.
- Own it. We are all owners. We focus on the core problems and opportunities that drive sustained success. We agree on a path, own the outcome, and do whatever it takes together.
- Focus on what matters. Know the goals, know the numbers, know what matters, and prioritize. Visualize it for everyone so that you can align the team and make it happen.
- Be Courageous. Have the courage to drive change for the business and don’t be afraid to take a risk and feel the burn.

## About 90 Seconds

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: 90 Seconds is a cloud video creation platform that connects enterprise brands with a global network of vetted Creator Partners to produce professional video content at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Singapore, Singapore
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Mischa Malane (CEO & Co-founder), Jake Davy (VP, Product & Co-founder), Tim Norton (Executive Director & Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Media Production, Video Creation, Marketing Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B - Enterprise brands and global marketing teams
- **Mission**: To create the world's leading cloud video creation platform, simplifying the complexity of global video production.

## Products & Services
- **Self-Serve Creation**: An e-commerce-like platform to browse, order, match, and deliver professional video globally.
- **Enterprise Platform**: A full end-to-end workflow for large brands to manage video shoots across multiple markets at scale, including a dedicated Concierge service.
- **AI Native Video Agency**: A full-service offering powered by an AI-driven platform and expert human creators.
- **AI Services**: 16 different AI services that assist creators in every stage of video production, from pre-production to post-production, working alongside human talent.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$39.4M**. Annual Revenue estimated at **$25.4M** (source: LinkedIn).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Peak XV Partners, Bombora. Clients include Amazon, Unilever, Deloitte, Marriott, KPMG, LVMH, and PayPal.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 50,000 videos produced for 4,500+ brands. Network of 14,000+ Creator Partners in 110+ countries and 1,500+ cities. 25,000+ shoots delivered. Offices in Singapore, US, London, Australia, Hong Kong, and New Zealand. The workforce is distributed across 22 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Global Network**: A deeply vetted and managed network of 14,000+ creators (videographers, editors, animators, drone operators) in 110+ countries, providing local context and cost without requiring the brand to scale headcount.
- **End-to-End Platform**: A proprietary platform that manages the entire workflow from briefing and ordering to review and delivery, creating a single source of truth.
- **Human + AI Model**: The only platform that combines a global network of real-world creators with AI tools to speed up production, creating a unique hybrid model.
- **Enterprise Track Record**: A decade of experience and a client list of top global brands provides strong proof of concept for scaling video production.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Integration**: Deeply integrating AI into every stage of the creation process to speed up delivery and maintain consistency, while keeping human creators at the center.
- **Scaling the Enterprise Platform**: Enabling the world's biggest brands to manage high-volume video creation with consistency and efficiency across all markets.
- **Global Expansion**: Maintaining and growing its presence across key regions (Asia, EMEA, Americas) and its distributed workforce.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company operates at the intersection of marketing, technology, and production. They emphasize "small teams with full ownership" and value people who care deeply about the craft of video creation and platform building.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: The company is explicitly remote-first, with a distributed team across 22 countries. Most roles, including the listed Business Development and Concierge Manager positions, are remote.
- **Global Team**: Work with a senior team spread across three regions with over a hundred years of combined experience.
- **Engineering Focus**: The Head of Engineering role is a key leadership position, indicating a strong focus on platform-building. The company notes it uses AI tools to support the hiring process.
- **Note on Ratings**: The company’s employer rating on LinkedIn is 1.9/5.0 (from 125 reviews), with specific lows in Culture (1.5) and Career (1.7). This should be considered a significant data point when evaluating the work environment, though the reasons are not detailed in public sources.

## Sources
1. [90seconds.com - Homepage](https://90seconds.com/)
2. [90seconds.com - About](https://90seconds.com/about/)
3. [90seconds.com - Careers](https://90seconds.com/about/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn - 90 Seconds](https://linkedin.com/company/90-seconds)
5. [Lever.co - 90 Seconds Jobs](https://jobs.lever.co/90seconds)

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