Full-Stack Software Engineer 1
We’re looking to hire a talented full-stack software engineer to join our team. This engineer will build new creative applications with LLMs and generative AI to make video creation and content repurposing faster and easier.
This position is a full-time role reporting to a Senior Engineering Manager at the Kapwing HQ in San Francisco.
Responsibilities
- Define, build, and launch full-stack features (React, Node, and Python) for one of the world's most popular cloud-based video editors. Test new features, monitor releases, and mitigate risk.
- Investigate and prototype new technologies and build applications on top of ML-powered APIs
- Create a culture of engineering excellence by refining our processes, documentation, onboarding and interviewing practices, tooling, and other cross-functional systems.
- Collaborate with, mentor, and teach other engineers on your area of expertise.
Requirements
- 1+ years of production-level software engineering experience (or 2+ software engineering internships) working in a modern web stack.
- Experience prototyping and building new products from scratch. Can evaluate, configure, and incorporate new web technology
- Scrappy: Define and quickly execute on MVPs to test out product hypotheses. Descopes problems to avoid getting lost in the weeds.
- Entrepreneurial: Excited about joining a small, high-growth team and contributing across all areas of the company
- No ego: There’s a lot we wish we could do but don’t have time for. Must have the ability to put the product’s needs first.
- Passion for serving creative professionals and interest in media
- Interest in or experience with video engineering (processing, uploads, FFMPEG, visual recognition, etc)
- Work authorization in the USA for 4+ years without sponsorship