Web Software Engineer, Captions
$170-220k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office (Union Square, NY)
AI-powered creative studio
Job no longer available
AI-powered creative studio
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$170-220k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office (Union Square, NY)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower our customers, regardless of background or experience, with the ability to bring their vision to life in seconds.
Role
Who you are
- Multi-disciplinary engineer with strong product sense and technical expertise, equally driven by customer focus and engineering excellence
- 7+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on designing and developing user-interfaces for highly scalable web applications
- Demonstrated fluency with a mainstream frontend and server-side framework (React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, ExpressJS, etc)
- Bonus: Experience or the ability/ appetite to learn WebGL, WASM, Electron
What the job involves
- You'll be joining an early team where you'll have an outsized impact on both the product and company's culture
- Deliver stunning, high-performance user experiences that shape the future of video software
- Collaborate with Product Designers and the broader team to conceptualize and ship incredible experiences directly to Captions' users
- Stay up-to-date with the latest web technologies and best practices, and apply them to improve the development process and drive innovation
- Manage the overall product process with the broader team, from requirements gathering and design to implementation and maintenance, and contribute to the development of project plans and schedules
Our take
As AI integration grows in creative fields, concerns arise about the future of professions like writing and design. However, Captions has transformed these anxieties into opportunities by harnessing AI technology to streamline the creative workflow.
By automating tasks in music, graphic design, and video production, Captions allows users to generate compelling content directly from their mobile devices. With a focus on meeting the rising demand for captivating digital content, its subscription-based model covers key processes like captioning, editing, dubbing, and soundtracking.
Captions' innovative approach has garnered attention, securing funding from tech giants like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. This investment will grow the company's machine learning team and invest further into in-house research efforts and technical infrastructure.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
61% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2024
$60m
SERIES C
Jun 2023
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $85m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Anything you need to do your best work
- We’ve done team off-sites to places like Paris, London, Park City, Los Angeles, and Nashville with more planned in the future
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
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Leadership
Gaurav Misra
(CEO)Previously the Head of Design Engineering at Snap Inc, Senior Software Engineer at Localytics, Software Development Engineer at Microsoft, and Software Engineer at Lattice Engines.
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