Full Stack Engineer, Reality Defender

$100-180k

Offers equity & Bonus

React

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Node.js

Azure

Mid and Senior level

Remote from US

Enterprise-grade deepfake detection

Be an early applicant

Enterprise-grade deepfake detection

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityPrivacyIdentity

Be an early applicant

$100-180k

Offers equity & Bonus

React

AWS

TypeScript

Python

Node.js

Azure

Mid and Senior level

Remote from US

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityPrivacyIdentity

Company mission

To help companies, governments, and journalists determine if media is real or fake, focusing on audio, video and image manipulation.

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Company

Role

Who you are

3+ years of professional software engineering experience
Strong experience on both:
Frontend: React + TypeScript (or similar modern frameworks)
Backend: Python, Go, or Node.js
Experience designing and consuming REST or streaming APIs
Solid understanding of databases, caching, and distributed systems fundamentals
Experience deploying and operating services in cloud environments (AWS/Azure)
Strong product mindset and ability to work independently in fast-moving teams

What the job involves

As a Full Stack Engineer, you’ll build end-to-end features across our customer-facing platform, internal tools, and APIs
You’ll work on everything from detection result dashboards and workflows to backend services that power real-time inference—owning projects from design through production.This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy broad technical ownership and building products that directly impact customers. Responsibilities include:
Design and implement end-to-end product features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
Build scalable APIs and backend services that power real-time deepfake detection
Create intuitive, high-performance UIs that make complex AI outputs understandable and actionable
Collaborate closely with ML engineers, product managers, and designers
Own technical decisions and contribute to system architecture
Improve performance, reliability, and security across the stack
Mentor other engineers and help define engineering best practices

Our take

Reality Defender was born out of The AI Foundation to help protect the 2020 US Elections from the threat of deepfakes. It officially launched as a company in 2021, based in New York. Today there continues to be a genuine issue where the public cannot decipher what is true or false online due to the existence of easily-created deepfakes.

Reality Defender's platform empowers enterprises to highlight and flag fraudulent users and content found online. Its API and app also provide risk scoring, reporting, and forensics review.

Reality Defender was selected as part of Y Combinator’s 2022 batch, the same backing received by Monzo, Airbnb and Stripe in their early days. This backing paired with the founding team’s experience of over twenty years at Google, Goldman Sachs, and the Intelligence Community, as well as its 2023 award win, has worked well for this very early-stage startup.

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Company

Company HQ

Manhattan, New York, NY

Leadership

Gaurav Bharaj

(Co-Founder)

Previously the Chief Science Officer at Flawless, the Vice President of Research for The AI Foundation and a Senior Researcher for Technicolor.

Ali Shahriyari

(Co-Founder & CTO)

Previously acted as the Director of Product for The AI Foundation and as a Vice President for Originate.

Ben Colman

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Co-founded PlaceAVote. Previously acted as NYC Lead for Xoogler.co, CEO for Convertix, and Vice President for Goldman Sachs.

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