Software Engineer, Mirage
Backend
$140-175k
Offers Equity
Office located in Union Square, New York City
AI-powered creative studio
Job no longer available
AI-powered creative studio
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$140-175k
Offers Equity
Office located in Union Square, New York City
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower our customers, regardless of background or experience, with the ability to bring their vision to life in seconds.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of industry experience designing, building, and operating backend services in a production environment
- Strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency, etc.) and proficiency in modern programming languages (e.g., Python, C++, Java, Rust)
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructures (GCP, AWS, Azure, or others) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a proven track record of delivering high-quality, scalable solutions
What the job involves
- As a member of our Backend Team, you will play a critical role in building and evolving the systems, services, and APIs that supports our global user base
- You’ll be involved in high-impact engineering projects—working on the cutting edge of advanced algorithms, distributed systems, video processing, and machine-learning pipelines
- As a member of our software engineering team, you will have an opportunity to empower creators and businesses around the world tell their stories with audio, video, and beyond
- Solve Complex Technical Challenges: You will design, implement, and optimize large-scale distributed systems capable of handling enormous throughput and concurrency
- Drive Product Infrastructure Forward: You’ll collaborate closely with product teams to make sure our platform is not just operationally sound, but also enables rapid feature development and deployment across multiple surfaces (mobile, web, and beyond)
- Shape Next-Generation Video and AI Platforms: You’ll have visibility into our advanced video processing workflows and AI research efforts, contributing to the core building blocks that make these cutting-edge initiatives possible
- Drive Platform Improvements: Continuously refine our existing platform, identify new technologies or methodologies that can enhance our infrastructure, and guide their adoption within the organization
- Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with cross-functional teams (product, web, mobile, AI research) to bring new ideas and approaches to the table and stay ahead of industry trends
Our take
As AI integration grows in creative fields, concerns arise about the future of professions like writing and design. However, Mirage, formerly Cpations, has transformed these anxieties into opportunities by harnessing AI technology to streamline the creative workflow.
By automating tasks in music, graphic design, and video production, Mirage allows users to generate compelling content directly from their mobile devices. With a focus on meeting the rising demand for captivating digital content, its subscription-based model covers key processes like captioning, editing, dubbing, and soundtracking.
Mirage's innovative approach has garnered attention, securing funding from tech giants like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. This investment will grow the company's machine learning team and invest further into technical infrastructure and in-house research efforts. It's the latter that spurned the company's rebrand from Captions in 2025, unifying the offerings of AI video platform Captions and the recently launched Mirage Studio under one name. It is refocusing on AI research into multimodal foundational models, which will help it differentiate itself in a highly competitive AI video solutions market.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2026
$75m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2024
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $160m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Anything you need to do your best work
- We’ve done team off-sites to places like Paris, London, Park City, Los Angeles, and Nashville with more planned in the future
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Gaurav Misra
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the Head of Design Engineering at Snap Inc, Senior Software Engineer at Localytics, Software Development Engineer at Microsoft, and Software Engineer at Lattice Engines.
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