Frontend Developer

About the Role

Frontend Engineer

video editors, real-time previews, timelines, overlays, and playback systems

product, design, backend, and AI/ML teams

🎯 Key Responsibilities

Video & Frontend Engineering

• Design and build

  AI video generation and browser-based video editing UIs

• Implement

  custom video players

  supporting HLS adaptive streaming, MP4 playback, and real-time preview rendering

• Build

  video timelines, layers, overlays, captions, and scene-based editors

• Handle video state transitions: loading, rendering, processing, exporting, and playback

• Develop reusable video components for previews, thumbnails, scrubbers, and controls

Real-Time & System Integration

• Integrate with

  REST

  and

  WebSocket-based pipelines

  for real-time job updates

• Collaborate with backend teams on

  video processing workflows and export pipelines

• Handle edge cases like long-running jobs, retries, partial renders, and failures

Quality & Collaboration

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and frontend build workflows

• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and performance audits

✅ Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3+ years

  of experience in frontend development

• Strong expertise in

  React.js + TypeScript/js

• Hands-on experience with

  video manipulation on web portals

• Solid understanding of:

• HLS, MP4, Media Source Extensions (MSE)

• Browser video APIs, Canvas, and rendering pipelines

• Experience building

  media-heavy UIs

  (editors, timelines, previews)

• Advanced state management (Redux Toolkit or similar)

• Strong grasp of

  browser performance optimization

• Proficiency with modern HTML, CSS, and CSS-in-JS solutions

• Comfortable with Git workflows, code reviews, and collaborative development

🌟 Nice to Have

• Experience with

  WebRTC or real-time video systems

• Familiarity with

  video analytics, watch-time tracking, and drop-off analysis

• Experience building

  WYSIWYG editors or drag-and-drop interfaces

• Basic understanding of backend systems (Node.js, Python, or Go)

• Open-source contributions or technical writing

🚀 Why Join Us?

• Build

  real AI video products

  , not demos or prototypes

• Work on

  cutting-edge AI + video technology

• High ownership and impact in a fast-scaling product

• Collaborate with strong engineering, AI, and product teams

• Competitive compensation with

  ESOPs and long-term upside