About the Role :

We are looking for a Frontend Engineer with deep expertise in video-centric web applications to build and scale a next-generation AI video generation and video editing portal.

This role sits at the core of our product experience designing and developing video editors, real-time previews, timelines, overlays, and playback systems that allow users to generate and edit AI-powered videos directly in the browser.

You will work closely with product, design, backend, and AI/ML teams to ship high-performance, production-grade video tools used daily by global customers.

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 :

1. HLS, MP4, Media Source Extensions (MSE)

2. 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