About Hedra:
Hedra is a pioneering generative media company backed by top investors at Index, A16Z, and Abstract Ventures. We're building Hedra Studio, a multimodal creation platform capable of control, emotion, and creative intelligence.
At the core of Hedra Studio is our Character-3 foundation model, the first omnimodal model in production. Character-3 jointly reasons across image, text, and audio for more intelligent video generation — it’s the next evolution of AI-driven content creation.
Summary:
As a
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
, you will design, build, and deploy the frontend and backend services that power our transformative products. You will work with emerging web standards to build web-based video and audio creation / editing tools, utilizing Webcodecs, web-assembly, and FFMPEG. You will also work with frameworks/languages such as NextJS, React, Redux, Mobx, Typescript, and Javascript, and dive deep into video container formats and streaming protocols, such as MP4, MKV, HLS, and MP-DASH.
You will also work on building and deploying backend services and APIs to our Kubernetes infrastructure, write secure, stable, and scalable Python code, interface with our ground-breaking foundation model, and integrate with SQS, Kafka, S3, and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic.
You will work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology.
Must-Have Experience:
- 5+ years of professional experience with Javascript, React, NextJS, and Typescript.
- Experience working closely with design and product to set and deliver engineering initiatives and projects.
- A product-focused engineer who is passionate about the user experience and empowering creatives.
- Familiarity with audio/video web standards and tools, such as Webcodecs, webRTC, HLS, MP-DASH, FFMPEG, MP4, and MKV.
Nice-To-Have Experience:
- Experience developing scalable services using Python or Golang.
- Familiarity with authentication / authorization such as oauth2 and OIDC
- Experience working with relational and noSQL datastores (such as DynamoDB)
- Experience writing unit and integration tests, working with CI/CD, and writing functional-tests using tools such as Playwright.
- Strong familiarity with frameworks / standards / concepts such as WASM, websockets, IndexedDB, promises, generators, and coroutines.
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation and equity
- 401k
- Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)
- Lunch and snacks at the office
We encourage you to apply even if you don't fully meet all the listed requirements; we value potential and diverse perspectives, and your unique skills could be a great asset to our team.
Compensation Range: $175K - $275K
