What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Frontend Engineer position at Ideogram?
Ideogram’s mission is to help people become more creative. Our thesis is that everyone has an innate desire to create. We are developing state-of-the-art AI tools that will make creative expression more accessible and efficient. We are pushing the limits of what’s possible with AI, with a focus on creativity and a high standard for trust and safety. Our headquarters is in downtown Toronto, and we have a small presence in NYC. Read our Canvas and Ideogram 2.0 blog posts, and try our product at ideogram.ai to get a glimpse of what we're building.
About The Role
As a Frontend Engineer, you will develop a sleek and engaging user interface in a large-scale consumer web environment. You will play an important role in each step of the product development process, from conceptualization to implementation to release; from rapidly prototyping, running A/B tests, to architecting and building solutions that can scale to support millions of users.
- Your ideas will help shape the direction of our product(s)
- You will build out consumer-facing features to power the future of inspiration to the planet
- You will learn about new technologies and discuss solutions to problems
- You will own end-to-end feature development
- You will write clean, testable, peer-reviewed code
What We're Looking For
- 5 years developing innovative and delightful consumer experiences at scale in HTML, CSS, JS, React, Angular, NodeJS, Flask, etc
- Background and experience with modern design processes and tools like Figma
- Experience building user friendly experiences based on design and product requirements.
- Knowledge of core CS fundamentals
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Self-starter - able to come up to speed on complex, difficult concepts with minimal assistance
- Proven track record of communicating complex technical issues across teams
- Curiosity and excitement about generative AI technology and its impact on the creative economy
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields
Founding team
Our founding team consists of world-renowned AI experts including Mohammad Norouzi, Jonathan Ho, William Chan, and Chitwan Saharia. This team has previously led transformative AI projects at Google Brain, UC Berkeley, CMU, and the University of Toronto. Our fundamental work in AI includes: Imagen: Google’s text-to-image system, Imagen Video for video synthesis, Denoising Diffusion Models, which is the foundation of the recent generative media transformation.
Company Culture
We're a single flat team that transcends engineering, research, product, and operation roles. Everyone is willing to do whatever is necessary to make our company and customers successful. We believe that a small, dedicated team with a collaborative culture can move faster and build better and more coherent products than large hierarchical organizations. At Ideogram, we provide mentorship and support to help our employees grow with the company and achieve their ambitious career goals.
Ideogram is committed to welcoming everyone, regardless of gender identity, orientation, or expression. Our mission is to remove exclusivity and barriers and encourage new thinking and perceptions, in a space of belonging. It is not about race, gender, or age, it is about the people.
