Senior Backend Engineer (Platform & Payments)

• Experience level: Senior
• Vacancies: 1
• Compensation: Monthly

About us

EhudAI is an AI creative studio for filmmakers, marketers and creators. People use it to generate images, video and whole cinematic sequences, with tools like Auteur, our cinematic storytelling tool, and AI Studio, an assistant that plans and produces creative work alongside you. We're a small team shipping fast for paying customers every day.

The role

This is a senior, high-ownership role. You'll take responsibility for the backend that everything else runs on: the services, data and infrastructure behind our creative tools. Your job is to make the platform dependable, secure and ready to scale, so the rest of the team can keep building new creative tools on top of it. Location: Bole, Addis Ababa. Please know that this is NOT A REMOTE ROLE.

What you'll do

• Own the design and quality of our backend services and APIs

• Build and maintain billing and usage systems where accuracy matters

• Make long-running background work reliable and observable

• Improve how we test, release and monitor our software

• Uphold strong security and data-protection practices across the platform

• Review code, write things down, and mentor a junior engineer

You'll likely have

• 5+ years building production backend systems, with strong Python

• Deep experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred): schema design, migrations and concurrency

• Experience with asynchronous job processing and background workers

• Experience with payments, subscriptions or other code that handles money

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD

• Good instincts for monitoring, logging and alerting

• Clear written communication, and you're comfortable owning outcomes with little oversight

Nice to have

• Experience with generative AI APIs (image, video or language models)

• Familiarity with local payment methods in Ethiopia

• Some React/TypeScript, enough to follow a problem across the stack

Why join EhudAI

• Real ownership over systems that matter to the business

• Work on creative tools for filmmakers and storytellers

• A small team where your work ships quickly and decisions are close at hand

• Competitive fixed monthly salary and benefits

How to apply

Click the link below to open our application form. You'll be asked to upload your CV, so sign in with any Google account.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxCqCycEjSiI1im1vUJcqEZFRQWBugTVN2WxMHg936H3KppA/viewform?pli=1