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title: 'Software Engineer, Business Engineering at Higgsfield'
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# Software Engineer, Business Engineering at Higgsfield 

- **Company:** Higgsfield 
- **Location:** Almaty, Kazakhstan
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/higgsfieldai/76d03c4d-8579-487f-ad4d-4328cc09825a

## Job description

Almaty, Kazakhstan · Growth Engineering

## Why this role exists

Higgsfield's Growth team runs on an internal platform. We need a Business Engineer to turn operational bottlenecks into software, from the data model and API to the screens the team uses every day. You own features through launch, adoption and production support.

## What you'll actually do

- Turn growth team problems into useful features. Define a small first release and build it across backend and frontend.
- Own database schemas, query performance and safe migrations on a live database.
- Build third-party integrations that handle API quotas, rate limits, retries and webhooks.
- Make payment and messaging workflows safe to retry, without duplicate payouts or sends, and keep an audit trail.
- Ship LLM features and measure quality, latency and cost per result.
- Own environments, releases, monitoring, security and access. Share on-call responsibility.
- Define success metrics, track adoption after launch and improve what you ship.

Must-haves

- Production experience. You've built and operated backend systems and can explain your decisions, personal contribution and results.
- Strong Python and full-stack delivery. You build backend services and React screens when a feature needs them.
- Deep PostgreSQL knowledge. Data modeling, query plans, indexes, transactions, locking and migrations on live databases.
- API security. Authentication, object-level authorization and role isolation. You prevent IDOR on reads and writes and test access as different users.
- Hands-on operations. Linux, containers, CI/CD, monitoring and debugging production from logs. You can run what you build.
- High agency and ownership. You find worthwhile problems, remove blockers and follow through without waiting for assignments.
- Low ego. You welcome direct feedback, admit mistakes and change your mind with evidence.
- Energy for an intense pace. The team ships daily, priorities shift and urgent production issues can need you outside regular hours.

Our tech stack

- Languages: Python and TypeScript.
- Backend: Python and Node.js services, REST APIs, background workers and scheduled jobs.
- Frontend: React with server-side rendering.
- Data: PostgreSQL and S3-compatible object storage.
- Infrastructure: Linux, Docker and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
- AI: LLM APIs from major providers.
- Quality: Static typing, linters and automated tests in both languages.

Bonus experience: Influencer marketing, affiliate programs or creator payouts; large-scale YouTube data within API quotas; email outreach and deliverability; LLM evaluations, prompt regression sets and cost tracking. Interview process

- Recruiter screen: role expectations, logistics and fit.
- Technical interview: a difficult system you shipped, what you personally decided and built, and how your work made the team more capable without leaving it dependent on you.
- Practical task: a real problem from our backlog, under NDA. You design the data model and API, write the core of it and explain your trade-offs.
- Product interview: turn a growth team problem into a small first release, decide what to leave out and explain how feedback would change it.
- Offer.

## What we offer

Competitive base in USD, equity, relocation support, and ownership of the systems Higgsfield's growth runs on.

## About Higgsfield 

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: AI-powered creative tools / Generative AI for video and image
- **Target Customers**: B2B and B2C – from first-time creators and social media influencers to professional filmmakers, marketing agencies, and Fortune 500 enterprises
- **Mission**: "Make cinematic-quality video and image creation accessible to anyone with an idea." [higgsfield.ai](https://higgsfield.ai/about)

## Products & Services
- **Higgsfield Platform (All-in-One Creative Studio)**: A web-based AI studio that combines proprietary and partner models for text-to-video, image-to-video, storyboarding, and full cinematic production. Includes:
  - **Soul 2.0** – Photorealistic image generation for fashion and editorial.
  - **Soul Cinema** – Cinematic-grade image generation.
  - **Higgsfield DOP** – Cinematic video generation.
  - **Keyframes** – AI storyboard generation.
  - **Cinema Studio** – Professional filmmaking workspace with 1,296 camera lenses, cinematic parameters, and color grading.
  - **Soul ID** – Character consistency system.
  - **Soul HEX** – Color control system.
  - **Reasoning Engine** – Proprietary layer that plans narrative structure, camera logic, and visual consistency before generation.
- **Higgsfield Earn** – Creator monetization program that pays creators for platform work and connects them with professional projects from Fortune 500 agencies, NBA teams, and fashion houses.
- **Enterprise Content** – Campaign production for Fortune 500 agencies.
- **Social Media Content** – Optimized for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
- **Product Video Ads** – Click-to-Ad generation from product URLs.
- **Pre-Production & Storyboards** – For directors and agencies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Over $1.3 billion (unicorn) as of 2025/2026 [higgsfield.ai](https://higgsfield.ai/about)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding reported as $138.25M (conflicting reports: LinkedIn shows $138.25M across multiple rounds; the careers page states "$130M raised in Series A") [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/higgsfield) | [careers.higgsfield.kz](https://careers.higgsfield.kz/)
- **Notable Investors**: Accel, Menlo Ventures, GFT Ventures, AI Capital Partners [higgsfield.ai](https://higgsfield.ai/about)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 25 million users, 850 million total generations (300 million videos) [higgsfield.ai](https://higgsfield.ai/about)
  - 6 million generations per day (2 million videos per day)
  - Headcount: 193 employees, monthly growth +13.1% [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/higgsfield)
  - Operations in 35 countries; major offices in San Francisco (USA) and Almaty (Kazakhstan)
  - Covered by Reuters, Forbes, TechCrunch, Adweek, and OpenAI

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Cinematic Logic Layer**: A reasoning engine that plans narrative, camera motion, and visual consistency before any generation – differentiating from simpler text-to-video tools.
- **Full-Stack AI Infrastructure**: Combines in-house models (Soul series, DOP, Cinema Studio) with partner models (Sora 2, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1) under one platform.
- **Creator-First DNA**: 40% of the team are filmmakers, producers, and creatives who shape the product roadmap.
- **Monetization Engine (Higgsfield Earn)**: Direct payouts and professional project matching create a self-reinforcing creator ecosystem.
- **Scale & Speed**: 200+ releases since launch; weekly shipping cadence.

## Strategic Focus
- Democratizing professional-grade video creation for all skill levels.
- Expanding enterprise and agency partnerships (Fortune 500 agencies already onboard).
- Deepening creator monetization and community-driven product development.
- Scaling the platform’s reasoning engine and model orchestration capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Built by creators, shaped by community" – a blend of ML engineers and award-winning filmmakers working in a tight feedback loop.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Unicorn status with 13% monthly headcount growth; positioned as a "next decacorn" by the company.
- **Hiring Speed**: Full process from first conversation to offer takes 1–2 weeks [careers.higgsfield.kz](https://careers.higgsfield.kz/)
- **Global Team**: Employees in 35 countries; office hubs in San Francisco and Almaty (Kazakhstan). Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated, but the distributed nature suggests flexibility.
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI video models, direct impact on a platform used by 25M creators, and the chance to join a unicorn in its early scaling phase.
- **Engineering Focus**: Strong emphasis on ML, backend engineering, and data annotation; top engineers from Central Asia are a key talent pool.

## Sources
1. [higgsfield.ai – About page](https://higgsfield.ai/about)
2. [higgsfield.ai – Homepage schema](https://higgsfield.ai/)
3. [LinkedIn – Higgsfield AI company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/higgsfield)
4. [careers.higgsfield.kz – Careers page](https://careers.higgsfield.kz/)
5. [getlatka.com – Higgsfield AI profile](https://getlatka.com/companies/higgsfield.ai)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com – Higgsfield AI careers (provided by user)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/higgsfieldai)

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