Senior Front-End Engineer, Livepeer
$70-100k
Offers Token package and Employee Stock Option Plan
The fusion of breakthrough video infrastructure and generative AI
Be an early applicant
The fusion of breakthrough video infrastructure and generative AI
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$70-100k
Offers Token package and Employee Stock Option Plan
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the world's open video infrastructure, enabling instantly scalable, reliable, and affordable video streaming.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in frontend development with a strong emphasis on design
- Proficient in React and TypeScript
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs
- Experience with databases and data modeling for frontend applications
- Proven ability to design and implement user interfaces independently
- Experience in developing and publishing successful JavaScript SDKs
- Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment
- Entrepreneurial Spirit: Strong ability to create clarity out of ambiguity and a can-do attitude
- Industry Knowledge: Experience with video streaming technologies or video-centric AI tooling
- Developer Focus: A passion for building developer-facing products and tools
- Accountability: Strong bias for action and accountability
Desirable
- Leadership Experience: Background as a founder or early engineer of a developer-facing product
- Community Network: A deep existing network within the frontend development community
- Performance Optimization: Experience with high-performing APIs in high-concurrency, low-latency environments
- Experience in: AWS, CDNs, Raffi
What the job involves
- We are at a pivotal moment in expanding Livepeer AI’s offerings and are seeking a Senior/Lead Front-End Engineer with strong design skills who can work independently
- A key requirement for this role is the ability to design and deliver intuitive, user-friendly interfaces
- As a key member of our engineering team, you will play a crucial role in shaping the user experience of our products and bringing them to market. This is an entrepreneurial role where you will have a significant impact on our developer tools and platform
- Design and Development: Create and maintain high-quality frontend applications using React, TypeScript, and RESTful APIs
- Own the Design: Create intuitive and engaging user interfaces with a strong focus on usability and visual appeal
- SDK Development: Build and maintain JavaScript SDKs to enable third-party developers to seamlessly integrate with our platform
- Collaboration: Work closely with backend developers and cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Optimization: Optimize applications for maximum speed, scalability, and responsiveness
- Code Quality: Participate in code reviews, mentor junior developers, and ensure best practices are followed
- Innovation: Stay up-to-date with emerging frontend technologies and trends to keep our products at the forefront of the industry
Our take
Livepeer is an AI video development platform that utilizes cutting-edge tech for artificially generated content creation. With a wide range of applications, Livepeer is developing a community equipped with cost-efficient AI and video processing capabilities.
Its video streaming platform offers companies up to 90% in cost savings compared to traditional video cloud providers and promises high reliability, scalability and security on its platform. Utilizing APIs, it’s an easy-to-use video building tool that can dramatically reduce the amount of time it takes to develop video content.
Though there's heated debate surrounding its use, AI video generation in its current iteration has a number of useful applications within the business world. The ecosystem of developers that Livepeer is fostering will no doubt continue to scale and see interesting new developments.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$20m
Series B
Jul 2021
$20m
Series B
Total funding: $51m
Company benefits
- Token package: Competitive token package with a 3-year vesting schedule
- Employee Stock Option Plan: Competitive ESOP with 4-year vesting and a 1-year cliff
- Annual Adjusted Salaries: Every January, we review and adjust pay
- Holidays: 25 vacation days per year plus any national holidays
- A day off on your birthday - because you deserve to celebrate! (If it falls on a weekend, take another day off that week.)
- Insurance: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance in applicable locations
- Pension: Company pension contributions in applicable locations
- Equipment: Choose a laptop of your preference and anything you need for a comfortable work setup (we’ll purchase it for you)
- Remote Work: Work anywhere in the world
- Flexible Working: Flexible hours to support work-life balance
- Annual Company Retreat: Once a year, we fly the whole company to an exciting global location for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun—all expenses covered
- Team Meetups: Each team comes together in person once a year to build trust, spark ideas, and share meaningful moments that go beyond the screen
- Work Anniversary Rewards: At Livepeer, we love recognising your journey. As you reach 3, 4, 5 years and beyond, you'll be celebrated with gift card rewards
- Celebrate Life’s Big Moments: Whether it’s a wedding, a new baby, or another major milestone, we’ll mark the occasion with a celebration gift
- Referral Bonus: Refer great talent to Livepeer and earn 100 LPT tokens when they’re hired and successfully complete their probation
- Latest Tech: Work with cutting-edge AI and the latest technologies alongside an innovative and entrepreneurial team
Company HQ
New York, USA
Leadership
Eric Tang
(Co-Founder)Previously Co-Founder & CTO at Wildcard. Technical Advisor at Transform Health and was a Member of the Technical Staff at Groupon.
Doug Petkanics
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Wildcard, Member of the Technical Staff at Groupon, Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Hyperpublic and was a Software Developer at Frogmetrics.
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