Principal Front End Engineer, Kaiber
$175-252k
AI creative lab
Open for applications
AI creative lab
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$175-252k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To unlock creativity through powerful and intuitive generative audio and video.
Role
Who you are
- Write high-quality code, fast
- Demonstrated technical leadership, such as being an architect or tech lead for high impact customer facing projects
- 9+ years experience in web UI application development; 6+ years of experience in TypeScript, React, CSS, State Management tools, performance optimization, etc
- Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, API design, design systems, performance and scale
Desirable
- Experience in leading engineering teams and proven to make an impact on the team and company level
- Strong UX designer's mindset, with a deep care for the beauty of the product you build. You have an artisan mentality and are always looking to improve your craft. At the same time, you can strike the right balance between idealism and pragmatism
- Significant Node.js experience is a plus
- Distributed system development experience is a big plus
What the job involves
- Be responsible for all of Kaiber’s front end. People think about you as both “the Uber Tech Lead for all of Kaiber’s front end” and “a truly exceptional IC with deep coding contribution”
- This is a full-stack engineer role with a heavy focus on front end. As a key player in our lean, elite engineering team (~ 12 engineers), expect that you will be spending >50% of time coding in this role
- Lead a team of ~5 senior+ engineers through the design, execution, and delivery of the company’s GenAI products
- Build delightful user experience with your taste and skills
- Be a quality gatekeeper, ensuring designs are well conceived, technically sound with few gaps, and solutions are implemented following best practices
- Own the operational health of front end. Ensure that appropriate instrumentation and alerts are in place
- Build for scale and high performance
- Tech Stack We Use: MERN: MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js. UX design: Figma Cloudflare R2 Cloud VM clusters with NVIDIA GPUs. They serve our ML models. Serverless / PaaS providers with NVIDIA GPUs. They serve our ML models. GenAI tools: ComfyUI, A1111, etc iOS, Android: Swift, Kotlin
Application process
- Apply with your profile
- HackerRank test & a short written candidate survey (7 Questions - this will help set the table for subsequent conversations in the flow)
- Video call screening with our Talent and People Ops team
- Live Coding interview
- Project Deep Dive interview
- Culture alignment interview with CEO & Head of Engineering
Our take
Kaiber emerges as a response to the evolving landscape of creative content production, addressing the lack of accessibility to advanced tools for generating visual content for artists and creators.
Kaiber leverages cutting-edge generative AI technology to democratise the creation of animated content. By offering a user-friendly mobile app equipped with a suite of AI-powered tools, including text-to-video and image-to-video functionalities, Kaiber allows creators to bring their artistic visions to life without the need for extensive technical expertise or large budgets.
With an expanding user base exceeding 5 million sign-ups and a proven track record of success with notable collaborations and viral trends, the company's trajectory is indicative of its potential. As it continues to refine its technology and expand its offerings, Kaiber is well-positioned to become a leading force in AI and visual arts.
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Company
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO (Paid Time Off) policy
- HealthAdvocate healthcare support
- TalkSpace online mental health therapy
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
Company values
- Creative Enablement, Not Replacement
- Break the Rules
- World Class
- Simple > Complex
- Respect Yourself, Respect Your Team, Respect Our Users
Company HQ
Arcadia, CA
Articles
Leadership
Victor Wang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Obtained their Doctor of Law degree with a focus on Intellectual Property Law and Emerging Technologies in 2015. They then went on to become an Intellectual Property Litigator/Attorney at Goodwin before co-founding Inkly.
Eric Gao
(Co-Founder & CTO)Currently the Founder/Technical Consultant at Lives of Asuna. Previously they also founded Capsule House, Banner Technologies, and BitFight. They also worked as a Software Engineer at Facebook and as a Contractor at Gigster.
Ede Schweizer
(Co-Founder & CDO)Founder of 3AM where they have served as a Product Designer for over 27 years. Previously they worked in Lead/Directive Creative roles at Amazon, Pinterest, Google, and Apple.
Christine Zuniga
(Co-Founder)Previously a Senior Social Media and Blog Specialist at Tableau Software. Prior to that, they were the Head of Social Media at MuleSoft and a Public Relations Account Executive at Highwire PR.
Jacky Lu
(Co-Founder)Began their career as a Developer and Researcher at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science in 2017. Since then they have worked as a Contributor/Assistant Editor at The Daily Californian, an Artist/Designer at SUBERB Productions, and as a Machine Learning Engineer at Stripe.
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