Full Stack Software Engineer; L3

Kapwing is building the next generation of modern creators tools to enable everyone to share their story online. Our mission is to make content creation fast, accessible, and collaborative. Kapwing has two products:

- Kai: A prompt-first AI design companion that helps creators bring visual ideas to life. Instead of learning complex design software, users can chat with Kai to explore, edit, and refine designs instantly in the browser. Launching in Fall 2025, Kai leverages the best LLMs and generative models to empower users to ideate, edit, and generate images, videos, and audio.

- Kapwing Studio:
An online video editor that is both powerful and easy to use. Millions of creators every month choose Kapwing to tell their story and bring their ideas to life.

Kapwing turns video editing, traditionally a heavyweight, time consuming workflow, into a joyful, collaborative experience. We believe that we can use technology to augment the video editing and content creation experience, and we've already started on this path with a wide array of templates, AI applications, and new pipelines for combining tooling with the best AI models.

Join us on our journey to democratize creative tools and invent the future stack of video creation.

• Define, build, and launch full-stack features (React, Node, and Python) for one of the world's most popular cloud-based video editors.
• Design, test, and implement LLM powered pipelines to automate away tedious parts of video editing.
• Stay up-to-date on new AI technologies, including LLMs and generative models. Prototype and test new technologies to evaluate quality and improve performance.
• Test new features, monitor releases, and mitigate risk.
• Investigate and prototype new technologies and build applications on top of ML-powered APIs
• Implement new features and improvements to Kapwing’s Studio and other core products. Partner with product and growth to reach new creators and sell to creative enterprises.
• Create a culture of engineering excellence by refining our processes, documentation, onboarding and interviewing practices, tooling, and other cross-functional systems. Collaborate with, mentor, and teach other engineers in your area of expertise.

• 1+ years of production-level software engineering experience in a modern web stack OR 2+ production-level internships
• Comfortable with React, Redux, Typescript, Node, automated testing (i.e. Cypress, Jest) and REST APIs Experience prototyping and building new products from scratch. Can evaluate, configure, and incorporate new web technology
• Experience building full stack features that leverage LLMs
• Scrappy:
  Define and quickly execute on MVPs to test out product hypotheses. Descopes problems to avoid getting lost in the weeds.
• Entrepreneurial:
  Excited about joining a small, high-growth team and contributing across all areas of the company
• No ego:
  There’s a lot we wish we could do but don’t have time for. Must have the ability to put the product’s needs first.
• [Preferred] Interest in or experience with video engineering (processing, uploads, FFMPEG, visual recognition, etc)
• Work authorization in the USA for 4+ years without sponsorship

$135,000 - $170,000 a year

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