Location: Remote-first (UK/EU/India preferred)
Company: FileSpin.io – AI-powered Digital Asset Management SaaS
About Us FileSpin.io is a fast-growing B2B SaaS platform providing AI-powered Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Media Processing .
We help enterprises scale their content operations with features like background removal, face recognition, video/image transformations, CDN delivery, and workflow automation.
We are now looking for a Senior Developer with strong technical leadership who can grow into the role of CTO within a few years.
This is a unique opportunity for someone who wants not just to write code, but also to shape the technical vision, culture, and architecture of a SaaS business that’s scaling globally.
Your Role As our Senior Developer (and future CTO) , you’ll:
- Take technical ownership of our core SaaS platform (Python, MySQL, Celery, OpenSearch, Redis, React frontend).
- Make architectural and design decisions that impact scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Lead and mentor a small team of developers; instill best practices in coding, testing, and deployment.
- Drive DevOps & infrastructure choices (AWS, Kubernetes, GPU servers for ML inference, Redis/Valkey, S3/CDN, etc.).
- Partner with the founder (current acting CTO) and step into leadership of technical roadmap planning and R&D.
- Collaborate with product, sales, and customers to deliver features that create clear business value.
- Champion security, compliance, and reliability across the platform.
- Prepare yourself to grow into a CTO role as the company scales.
Our Tech Stack - Backend: Python, FastAPI, Celery, REST APIs
- Data & Search: MySQL, OpenSearch, Redis/Valkey
- Frontend/Design: React, Next.js, Tailwind, Framer Motion, Figma
- Infrastructure: Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2
- ML/AI: NVIDIA GPUs, Triton inference server, custom models (face recognition, Remove Background), MCP, n8n
- Workflows: Prefect, Celery distributed tasks
What We’re Looking For - 8+ years experience in software engineering with a track record of shipping SaaS products .
- Strong expertise in Python, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures .
- Deep experience in databases, caching, queues, and search at scale.
- Comfort with AWS services, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines .
- Bonus: exposure to machine learning pipelines, GPU inference, DAM/media processing .
- Strong communication and leadership skills – able to mentor and grow a team.
- Entrepreneurial mindset: excited to help scale a SaaS startup .
Why Join Us?
- Impact & Ownership: Directly influence the technical direction of a growing SaaS platform.
- Growth Path: Opportunity to step into the CTO role as we scale.
- Cutting-edge tech: Work with AI/ML, distributed systems, and media processing at scale.
- Global customers: Our clients include enterprises in events, e-commerce, media, and more.
- Flexible work: Remote-first culture, outcome-driven, not time-clock driven.
- Compensation: Competitive salary + performance bonus
Send your CV, GitHub/portfolio links, and a short note on why you’re excited about FileSpin.io