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Principal Front End Engineer

Kaiber
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/15/2025 CLOSED ON 3/28/2025

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Principal Front End Engineer

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About Kaiber

At Kaiber, our mission is to empower humans with generative creative tools and discover what it means for humans and machines to make art together.

Our product, Kaiber Labs is a generative AI creative suite that enables creatives to do text2image, text2video, image2video, and video2video with much more on the way.

We also run Kaiber studio - a creative AI research studio. Our studio defines the next frontier of self-expression with cutting-edge technology and high visibility partnerships such as Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda, Kid Cudi, and Grimes.

Our customers use Kaiber to :

  • Create music videos
  • Animate album art covers
  • Make concert visuals
  • Craft full-length films
  • Repurpose content with an imaginative twist

Founding Team

Kaiber was founded by Victor Wang (Goodwin, Inkly [YC]), Eric Gao (Facebook, Banner [YC]), Jacky Lu (Stripe), and Christine Zuniga (Tableau, MuleSoft).

Job Responsibilities

This is a full-stack engineer role with a heavy focus on front end. As a key player in our lean, elite engineering team (~ 12 engineers), expect that you will be spending >

50% of time coding in this role.

You will :

  • Be responsible for all of Kaiber’s front end. People think about you as both “the Uber Tech Lead for all of Kaiber’s frontend” and “a truly exceptional IC with deep coding contribution”.
  • Lead a team of ~5 senior engineers through the design, execution, and delivery of the company’s GenAI products.
  • Build delightful user experience with your taste and skills.
  • Be a quality gatekeeper, ensuring designs are well conceived, technically sound with few gaps, and solutions are implemented following best practices.
  • Own the operational health of front end. Ensure that appropriate instrumentation and alerts are in place.
  • Build for scale and high performance.
  • Minimum Qualifications

  • Write high-quality code, fast.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership, such as being an architect or tech lead for high impact customer-facing projects.
  • 9 years experience in web UI application development; 6 years of experience in TypeScript, React, CSS, State Management tools, performance optimization, etc.
  • Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, API design, design systems, performance and scale.
  • Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in leading engineering teams and proven to make an impact on the team and company level.
  • Strong UX designer's mindset, with a deep care for the beauty of the product you build. You have an artisan mentality and are always looking to improve your craft. At the same time, you can strike the right balance between idealism and pragmatism.
  • Significant Node.js experience is a plus.
  • Distributed system development experience is a big plus.
  • Tech Stack We Use

  • MERN : MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js.
  • UX design : Figma
  • Cloudflare R2
  • Cloud VM clusters with NVIDIA GPUs. They serve our ML models.
  • Serverless / PaaS providers with NVIDIA GPUs. They serve our ML models.
  • GenAI tools : ComfyUI, A1111, etc.
  • iOS, Android : Swift, Kotlin
  • Salary

    175,000 - $252,000 a year

    Salary depends on experience and geographical location.This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, such as candidate’s experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity among our team. Additional benefits for this role may include : equity, company bonus opportunities; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and supplemental wellness benefits.

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