Senior / Staff Full-Stack Engineer

Hedra is a frontier artificial intelligence company for generative media. We're building world-leading models and beautifully simple software for turning your ideas into impact, with backing from leading VCs at a16z, Index Ventures, and Abstract Ventures.

We've grown to millions of creators on our platform. Now we need someone to make Hedra impossible to ignore—the brand that creators talk about, that shows up in your feed, that defines what AI video can be.

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy the frontend and backend services that power our transformative products. You will work with emerging web standards to build web-based video and audio creation / editing tools, utilizing Webcodecs, web-assembly, and FFMPEG. You will also work with frameworks/languages such as NextJS, React, Redux, Mobx, Typescript, and Javascript, and dive deep into video container formats and streaming protocols, such as MP4, MKV, HLS, and MP-DASH.

You will also work on building and deploying backend services and APIs to our Kubernetes infrastructure, write secure, stable, and scalable Python code, interface with our ground-breaking foundation model, and integrate with SQS, Kafka, S3, and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic.

You will work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology.

• 5+ years of professional experience with Javascript, React, NextJS, and Typescript.

• Experience working closely with design and product to set and deliver engineering initiatives and projects.

• A product-focused engineer who is passionate about the user experience and empowering creatives.

• Familiarity with audio/video web standards and tools, such as Webcodecs, webRTC, HLS, MP-DASH, FFMPEG, MP4, and MKV.

• Experience developing scalable services using Python or Golang.

• Familiarity with authentication / authorization such as oauth2 and OIDC

• Experience working with relational and noSQL datastores (such as DynamoDB)

• Experience writing unit and integration tests, working with CI/CD, and writing functional-tests using tools such as Playwright.

• Strong familiarity with frameworks / standards / concepts such as WASM, websockets, IndexedDB, promises, generators, and coroutines.

• Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS.

• Experience developing/scaling pipelines, event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka.

• Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems.

• Experience with k8s, docker, especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware.

• Competitive compensation and equity

• 401k

• Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)

• Lunch and snacks at the office

We encourage you to apply even if you don't fully meet all the listed requirements; we value potential and diverse perspectives, and your unique skills could be a great asset to our team.