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# Senior Backend Engineer (Go) (Location - Australia or New Zealand) at Creative Fabrica

- **Company:** Creative Fabrica
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/creativefabrica/jobs/4972617101

## Job description

## About Creative Fabrica

Creative Fabrica is a subscription platform serving millions of creators, designers, and crafters worldwide. We're built on the principle that everyone can be creative. We remove what stands in the way: expensive software, technical expertise, and time-consuming production.

Our Studio AI suite offers more than 26 specialized AI tools that automate technical work: generate custom images, remove backgrounds, create fonts, and produce publication-ready designs in minutes instead of hours.

Our content library contains 15+ million commercially-licensed fonts, graphics, SVGs, and templates, giving you professional-quality building blocks without the expense or time of creating assets from scratch.

About the role:

This is a fully remote role within New Zealand, Australia East Coast or nearby time zones.

Creative Fabrica is building a new generation of AI products, and we want the quality and speed of our creative output to match the ambition of the products themselves.

Our 26+ AI tools already serve hundreds of thousands of creators every day, from hobbyist crafters to professional designers. The engineering challenge is making heavy, long-running AI workloads feel fast and reliable at that scale.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with deep Go experience who can architect high-concurrency systems and take ownership of our multimodal generation pipeline. As a Senior Backend Engineer (Go), you will own the backend systems behind Studio AI's generation pipeline.

You will work closely with our other backend engineers, platform engineers, and Product to turn raw model output into a polished product experience.

This is not primarily an API-building role. The difficulty sits in orchestration: coordinating expensive inference across media domains, handling partial failure gracefully and keeping latency predictable under load.

You will have significant technical freedom. Sometimes you will pick up a defined problem; other times you will be given an objective and expected to define the architecture yourself.

Your overlap with our Amsterdam headquarters will mostly be asynchronous, so you should be comfortable working independently.

Our stack: Go, Kafka, SQS, gRPC, ConnectRPC, GraphQL, Postgres, AWS (EKS, S3, Lambda).

What you will do:

- Design and scale Go microservices that manage the full lifecycle of an AI generation.
- Optimise our ConnectRPC services and asynchronous pipelines (Kafka, SQS) to handle long-running, resource-intensive inference without compromising platform stability.
- Build the backend logic behind advanced features, including multimodal orchestration across images, video, audio, 3D and vector.
- Work with AWS to manage large data throughput and integrate with high-performance storage and compute clusters.
- Collaborate with external providers and Product to bridge the gap between model output and production user experience.
- Make and document architectural decisions on concurrency, queueing, backpressure and failure handling as the pipeline scales.
- Improve reliability and latency across the generation path, and own the observability needed to see both clearly.
- Own quality end to end: code review, testing strategy and on-call readiness for the services you build.
- Integrate new frontier models into production workflows quickly and safely.
- Contribute to technical direction across the wider backend platform, not only your own services.
- Stay current with distributed systems practice, AI infrastructure and model-serving developments.

What you will need:

- Extensive experience building and scaling backend services in Go in high-traffic, high-volume SaaS environments.
- Proven ability to design distributed microservice architectures, including asynchronous processing (Kafka, SQS), low-latency service communication (gRPC, ConnectRPC or GraphQL) and long-running or resource-intensive workloads with queueing, backpressure and retry strategies.
- Deep AWS knowledge (EKS, S3, Lambda) alongside solid relational database skills, ideally Postgres: schema design, query performance and handling growth.
- Strong production discipline: observability, performance profiling, debugging live systems, code review and automated testing.
- Comfortable owning and documenting architectural decisions. Good written and spoken English.
- Strong sense of ownership over the reliability and quality of the systems you build, and over whether they actually perform for users rather than just read well.
- Pragmatic and self-directed; defines an approach without a fully specified brief, balances engineering quality against product goals, and ships dependable systems at pace rather than over-engineering.
- Strong written communicator who documents decisions by default, takes direct feedback well, and works effectively in a distributed team with limited real-time overlap.

Nice to have:

- Media processing experience such as video transcoding, audio synthesis or vector manipulation.
- AI infrastructure experience: model serving at scale, GPU-accelerated workloads, integrating third-party or open-source generative models into production, and cost optimisation for compute-heavy jobs.
- Background in a startup or other fast-moving, distributed environment, with an interest in helping shape product direction.

Please note: You must already be living in Australia or New Zealand to be considered for this role.

Is this you?

Get in touch! We'd love to speak to you.

You can apply by clicking the "Apply now" button.

Creative Fabrica is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

## About Creative Fabrica

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Creative Fabrica is a fast-scaling tech startup from Amsterdam that provides a marketplace and AI-powered tools for digital assets, fonts, graphics, and crafts, empowering creators and crafters worldwide.
- **Entity Type**: Private (VC-funded, raised $68.57M total)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands (Westerstraat 187, 1015 LZ)
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on main sources (design background founders)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Digital marketplace, graphic design, crafting, AI-powered creative tools
- **Target customers**: B2C (creators, crafters, hobbyists, designers, entrepreneurs) and B2B (independent designers selling on marketplace)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To make everyone a creator" and "change the way people consume digital assets"

## Products & Services
- **Marketplace**: A subscription-based library of over 22 million fonts, graphics, craft designs, and digital assets from 22,000+ independent designers.
- **Studio AI**: A suite of AI-powered creative tools including generative 3D modeling (Nano), AI image generation, and an Ad Campaign Generator for marketing materials.
- **Subscription Service**: Access to a vast library of premium digital assets for a flat monthly fee, targeting crafters, designers, and entrepreneurs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $68.57M raised; 50M+ monthly page views; 8M+ registrations; 22M+ products listed; 22,000+ active designers; 7M+ users globally
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Peak Capital, Felix Capital, TriplePoint Capital, LionTree, and 5+ other investors; Google Cloud (strategic partner for AI infrastructure)
- **Growth Signals**: Launched AI Studio with generative 3D tools (Nano) and Ad Campaign Generator in 2026; selected Google Cloud to scale AI-driven content creation; 50M+ monthly pageviews; fast-scaling VC-funded scale-up

## Competitive Advantages
- **Massive content library**: 22M+ products and 22,000+ active designers create a strong network effect and deep moat in the crafting/design asset space.
- **AI-first innovation**: Early mover in generative 3D for 3D printing (Nano) and AI marketing tools, differentiating from traditional asset marketplaces.
- **Subscription model**: Flat-fee access to premium assets creates high customer lifetime value and recurring revenue.
- **Community-driven**: Empowers 30,000+ global designers to generate income, fostering a loyal supply-side ecosystem.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-powered creation**: Expanding Studio AI suite with generative 3D, image, and marketing tools to move beyond a pure marketplace into a full creative platform.
- **Scaling the creator economy**: Growing the designer community and user base (8M+ registrations) through AI-driven content and tools.
- **Global expansion**: Leveraging Google Cloud infrastructure to scale AI capabilities and reach a broader international audience.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-scaling, ambitious, and empowering environment with a focus on hiring the best talent. Values include "Be the best version of yourself," "Make an impact," and "Genuine collaboration."
- **Flexibility**: Hybrid working arrangements with company-wide guidelines; flexible hours to suit individual and team needs.
- **Office**: Beautiful office in Amsterdam’s Jordaan district with in-house meals, an exclusive CF library, and a creative, collaborative space.
- **Perks**: 24 days of annual leave plus local national holidays; top-notch tools and gear (laptop, screens, stand-up desk); regular company events, after-work gatherings, and trips abroad; TGIF tradition at local bar.
- **Team**: International, diverse, and highly talented team; ambitious, fast-scaling environment where you can "make your mark."
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Hybrid working arrangements with company-wide guidelines; some roles (e.g., AI Marketing Specialist) are fully remote.

## Sources
1. [careers.creativefabrica.com](https://careers.creativefabrica.com/)
2. [creativefabrica.com/about](https://www.creativefabrica.com/about/)
3. [job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/creativefabrica](http://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/creativefabrica)
4. [creativefabrica.com](https://www.creativefabrica.com/)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/creative-fabrica](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/creative-fabrica)

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