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Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Abstract Ventures
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 1/22/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/19/2025

About Hedra :

Hedra is a pioneering video foundation model company founded by former Stanford PhDs and backed by top investors at Index, A16Z, and Abstract Ventures. We're building a full-stack creation studio capable of control, emotion, and creative intelligence.

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We raised 10 million dollars in our seed round to revolutionize content creation. Our flagship product, the Character foundation model, launched in late June and garnered national attention, landing us on the top of Reddit (multiple times!) and Twitter. In early October we released Character-2, which has already produced highly creative and viral content.

Note : At Hedra, we’re a team of hard-working, passionate individuals seeking to fundamentally change content and build a generational company together. You should have start-up experience and be a self-starter that is driven to build impactful products that change the status quo. You must be willing to work in-person in either NYC or SF.

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. We’re looking for full-time hires for our New York or San Francisco offices.

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.
  • Startup Experience is a must — we work hard and build quickly. Ideal candidates should be passionate with an always-on attitude that drives them to live and breathe the product (not a “punch the clock” disposition).

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.
  • Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS.
  • Experience developing / scaling pipelines, event streaming / processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka.
  • Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems.
  • Experience with k8s, docker, especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware.
  • Personality :

  • Self-motivated and independent — able to set accurate timelines for development and deliver on them. Have an opinion and the experience to back that opinion.
  • Low ego, high patience, strong communication skills.
  • Understand operational costs and overhead short and long term.
  • Mission-driven — we are building something fundamentally disruptive and this reflects deeply in our company DNA.
  • And most importantly, treat Hedra as your own and help shape the vision accordingly.
  • Benefits :

  • Competitive compensation and equity.
  • 401k.
  • Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental).
  • Gym access.
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