Founding Front End Full Stack Engineer – AI video ($140k-$220k)

Job Description

About this role

What You’ll Do:

We’re hiring a talented web UI engineer to join our small team building our new web application. We’re looking for self-starters who take extreme pride in their work.

In a typical 2-week period you might do 2-3 of the following:

* Ship a new 0-1 consumer app experience
* Design creative, lemon-related animations that play while users are waiting for videos
* Talk to users via Discord and email. Fix bugs they report. Prioritize feature requests.
* Add a user onboarding tour to the Lemon Slice studio
* Build a dynamic gallery that showcases user videos and makes it easy to share and remix

Role details:

2-4 years of experience as a software engineer with a front-end focus

Salary

$140k – $220k

Equity

0.5%-2.0%

Visa sponsorship available

Visa sponsorship available for exceptional candidates (STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1)

On-site work policy

In person in SF | We can support relocation to the Bay Area

Full-time position

Hiring goals

ASAP

Location

San Francisco, CA

Tech stack

JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, Tailwind, React, NextJS

Ideal candidates

Minimum requirements a candidate must meet:

Seniority

2 – 4 years of experience as a software engineer with a front-end focus

Work experience

-Incredibly strong portfolio/examples of work

-Experience with large-scale video applications, such that typical loading delays and performance issues rarely happen

Hard skills

-Expert in modern front-end stack (JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, Tailwind, React, NextJS, etc)

-Proficiency with tools like debuggers, profilers, and flamegraphs to identify areas of improvement for performance

-Proficiency with animation libraries and tools (3JS, WebGL, Framer Motion, GSAP, GLSL shaders, etc)

-Familiarity using GenAI creative tools such as Midjourney, Leonardo, Kling/Luma/Runway, Suno, etc.

Miscellaneous

-You have great taste in design. You can go quickly from sketching a few options to then implementing a beautiful new feature.

-Growth mindset

-Interest in consumer products

About Confidential

Confidential’s mission is to build the world’s best video foundation model for human motion and emotion. We allow creators to generate expressive, talking head videos from just a single image. We train our own video models because we believe the winners of this GenAI wave will be vertically integrated.

We’ve raised a $6M seed round from top investors including Y Combinator, Matrix Partners, The Chainsmokers, Emmett Shear (Founder/CEO at Twitch), Arash Ferdowsi (Founder/CTO at Dropbox), and many others. Lemon Slice has been featured on the All In Podcast, front page of Hacker News, and voted a top 5 product on Product Hunt. Our…