Senior Frontend Developer for Video Gen AI startup
Zebracat is on a mission to re-invent visual storytelling with Generative AI 🎥🤖
We are building an AI video generation platform, that allows marketers to go from one line of text to highly engaging videos within less than a minute.
We are backed by top investors such as Entrepreneur First, AI unicorn founders, the founder of Amazon Alexa and top AI scientists. The first version of the product is live. Thousands of monthly active users, first revenues, and a highly engaged fanbase.
There has never been a more exciting time to join us in the revolution of AI video generation!
About this position 🎉
Are you a highly ambitious self-starter who is comfortable with a constantly changing and evolving startup environment? Ideally, you have a track record of over-achievement.
We look for signals that a candidate will thrive in our culture, where we embrace feedback, grow rapidly, and love our work.
As a Senior frontend developer at Zebracat, you will have a core role in shaping the heart of our product. You will bring the initial version to the next level and create magical experiences for our users. You will receive lots of user feedback, innovate, and iterate fast together with the team.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with 5+ years of front-end development experience.
- Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, Redux, modern HTML, CSS (including CSS Grid and Flexbox), and JavaScript.
- Proficient in animation libraries (e.g., GSAP, threejs), with a strong grasp of Canvas and WebGL for visual content.
- Significant experience with AWS services, particularly AWS Lambda, and adept at integrating front-end applications with cloud-based services.
- Solid understanding of state management libraries beyond Redux, such as MobX or Recoil, to manage application states.
- Familiarity with performance optimization techniques for web applications, especially those involving media-rich content like video.
- Strong problem-solving skills, adaptability, and a commitment to excellence in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Excellent teamwork, communication skills, and attention to detail.
Nice to haves
- Backend development experience, especially with Python, is a plus but not mandatory.
- Prior experience at a fast-paced startup and able to work well in unstructured environments
Benefits
- 🙌 Growth engine: We encourage honest feedback and try to give everyone room to grow professionally and personally.
- 🌟 Have Impact: you will make impactful decisions and drive results from day 1. You will have the opportunity to play a crucial role in building out a globally significant company.
- 🔭 Innovative environment: we are dreaming BIG and building something that hasn’t been done before. We guarantee a challenging job with lots of responsibility and freedom to grow professionally and acquire new skills.
- 🌏 Flexible work: Getting impactful results is what matters the most to us. It doesn't matter where in the world you work from.
- 🎊 Fun and welcoming culture
- 🚀Join the rocket ship while is taking off
At Zebracat, we welcome innovative thinkers and big dreamers from all different cultures, every corner of the world, religion, and gender, who don’t shy away from questioning the status quo.