Full Stack Engineer, Panopto
Contractor
$3,000 - $3,500 a month. Rates based on experience and project scope. Be prepared to discuss your budget
Video capture, streaming, search, and archiving solutions
Be an early applicant
Video capture, streaming, search, and archiving solutions
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$3,000 - $3,500 a month. Rates based on experience and project scope. Be prepared to discuss your budget
101-200 employees
Company mission
Committed to designing smarter ways to work and learn with video.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who enjoys architecting systems from scratch, optimizing performance, and working with cutting-edge AI technologies (like OpenAI APIs, embeddings, agents, etc.)
- While you should be comfortable touching frontend code when needed, your strength lies in backend systems, APIs, and AI integration
- Solid backend experience with Node.js and Express (or similar)
- Experience building and scaling web services and APIs
- Familiarity with modern JavaScript (ES6+) and TypeScript
- Hands-on experience integrating OpenAI or other LLM APIs
- Understanding of prompt engineering, vector embeddings, or agentic patterns
- Ability to think through system design and architecture independently
- This is a contractor/vendor role. You will not be an employee of Panopto. You must be able to invoice us for services rendered and be responsible for your own taxes and benefits
- All deliverables must comply with our confidentiality/IP/data handling policies
Desirable
- Experience with structured output parsing from LLMs (e.g., JSON, markdown)
- Solid experience with React framework
- Experience with FFmpeg or low-level media processing
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Full Stack Engineer (JavaScript, LLM/OpenAI experience) to join our team as an independent contractor
- R. This is an exciting opportunity to help us shape the infrastructure and intelligence layer behind one of the leading AI video generation platforms
- Design and build backend services (Node.js, Express) to support scalable AI-powered features
- Architect and optimize databases and service infrastructure
- Integrate LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, etc.) into our product workflows
- Working with our Research team and custom AI models
- Contribute to React-based frontend apps
- Project Start Date: Immediately
- Estimated Project End Date: Ongoing
- Estimated Weekly Hours: 40 hours a week
- Location: Remote
- This is a contractor/vendor role. You will not be an employee of Panopto. You must be able to invoice us for services rendered and be responsible for your own taxes and benefits. All deliverables must comply with our confidentiality/IP/data handling policies
Application process
- Interested candidates are invited to apply and submit the following:
- Your Resume/CV outlining relevant experience
- A Cover Letter detailing your interest in this specific project, your relevant skills, and your proposed rate (i.e. annual, monthly, etc.)
- Portfolio/Work Samples: [Link to online portfolio, attach relevant documents, or describe examples of your work]
- Availability: Please indicate your earliest start date and estimated weekly availability
Our take
The concept for Panopto developed in the early noughties when the founders noticed that storing videos on computer hard drives was becoming cheaper than storing them on tape. The company’s foundations were in a free software paid support service that provided the tools for downloading videos onto a computer. Nearly two decades later, Panopto provides educational institutions and enterprise businesses with screencasting, lecture recording, streaming and video content management software.
Panopto’s modern platform offers clients in education, aviation, telecoms, and healthcare, among others, an all-in-one video platform for creating and publishing video content. Its audience engagement tools, alongside GenAI video production software (through the acquisition of Elai), keep the company in step with modern innovations within the content production sector.
Panopto continues to grow its reach and in 2024 launched a cloud hosting service in Japan and acquired cloud hosting and GenAI startups to fuel its growth.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2016
$42.8m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jan 2011
$4m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $48.5m
Company benefits
- Time Off Benefits - Generous and flexible leave policies. Unlimited Take What You Need PTO, including sick days for when you need it most. Holidays to celebrate with loved ones. Extended bereavement program to support you during difficult times. Tenured Leave opportunities for long-term employees to recharge and reflect. Extended Maternity and Paternity Leave to cherish family moments. Volunteer time off to give back to your community
- Core Benefits - At Panopto, we prioritize both professional growth and a fulfilling,balanced life for our employees. Our core benefits include comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and ancillary insurance plans. We provide access to a benefits preview to understand how Panopto benefits would support you and short-term and long-term disability insurance for peace of mind
- Retirement and Savings Benefits - 401k plan with company match to secure your financial future. Healthcare spending and reimbursement accounts for your well-being
- Healthful Living Benefits - At Panopto we understand well being is about more than physical health. We’re proud to offer workplace perks such as daily mental health break walks, a wellness rewards program to support your well-being, an employee assistance program for confidential support and a mindfulness program for stress reduction
- Remote Work Benefits - Enjoy all the benefits of a remote-first workplace that supports full work from home for ultimate flexibility. Childcare schedule flexibility to balance work and family life. Asynchronous work to accommodate your unique schedule
- Rewards, Recognition, and Employee Perks - Our great team is Panopto’s most valuable asset. We’re proud to offer an employee recognition program to celebrate your achievements, a Values Awards program to embody our company culture and referral bonuses for bringing great talent to Panopto
- Career Development Benefits - Panopto’s career tracks and competency and skills training will help you advance your career. We offer access to the LinkedIn Learning Program to expand your knowledge, AWS services and architecture training to stay ahead, and secure coding training to enhance your skills
Company HQ
North Shore, Pittsburgh, PA
Leadership
Jason Beem
(CEO)Previously Interim CRO at Advantive, COO at Stackline, Operating Executive at ST6 and Senior Vice President at Accruent.
Andrew Herning
(CFO)Previously Senior VP of Finance at Billtrust, CFO at UniTek Global Services, Inc. and American Standard.
Amit Mondal
(CTO)Previously worked as Group Vice President of Development at PowerSchool Group, was an Official Member of the Forbes Technology Council, Senior VP at SumTotal Systems and was the Director at Oracle.
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