Kapwing is looking to solve the problem of making content creation fast, accessible, and collaborative by building the next generation of modern creators tools.
Requirements
- 1+ years of production-level software engineering experience in a modern web stack OR 2+ production-level internships
- Comfortable with React, Redux, Typescript, Node, automated testing (i.e. Cypress, Jest) and REST APIs
- Experience prototyping and building new products from scratch. Can evaluate, configure, and incorporate new web technology
- Experience building full stack features that leverage LLMs
- Interest in or experience with video engineering (processing, uploads, FFMPEG, visual recognition, etc)
- Experience with automated testing (i.e. Cypress, Jest)
- Experience with REST APIs
Responsibilities
- Define, build, and launch full-stack features (React, Node, and Python) for one of the world's most popular cloud-based video editors.
- Design, test, and implement LLM powered pipelines to automate away tedious parts of video editing.
- Stay up-to-date on new AI technologies, including LLMs and generative models. Prototype and test new technologies to evaluate quality and improve performance.
- Test new features, monitor releases, and mitigate risk.
- Investigate and prototype new technologies and build applications on top of ML-powered APIs
- Implement new features and improvements to Kapwing’s Studio and other core products. Partner with product and growth to reach new creators and sell to creative enterprises.
- 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 in your area of expertise.
Other
- 1+ years of production-level software engineering experience
- Work authorization in the USA for 4+ years without sponsorship
- 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.
- Entrepreneurial: Excited about joining a small, high-growth team and contributing across all areas of the company
- Scrappy: Define and quickly execute on MVPs to test out product hypotheses. Descopes problems to avoid getting lost in the weeds.
