Fullstack Engineer

About the Position

Fullstack Engineer

We're building the future of storytelling and video editing at Cardboard, Inc. Join our small, fast-moving team in Bengaluru, India, and help us create tools that make video creation easier and more powerful.

About Us

• Our Mission: We're building Cardboard to change the way humans tell stories through video.
• Our Team: We're backed by a Tier-1 global fund, YC, and founders of billion-dollar companies.
• Our Values: We care obsessively about taste in design, product, and every detail.

Responsibilities

• Build and Ship Features: Develop and deploy features across the entire stack, from the user interface to the backend services.
• Solve Complex Problems: Work on real-time editing, smooth playback, and handling large media files in the browser.
• Shape AI Editing: Contribute to the AI editing experience that allows our agent to make real edits.
• Ensure Performance: Keep the product fast and reliable, even on large, demanding projects.

Requirements

• Engineering Fundamentals: Strong experience owning features end to end.
• Fullstack Proficiency: Comfortable working across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
• Quality and Performance: Obsessed with quality and performance; you notice and fix jankiness.
• Fast-Paced Environment: Thrive in a fast-moving, lightly-processed environment where you set your own bar.

Nice to Have

• Media Experience: Experience with media or video processing, real-time or offline-first systems, or building on top of LLMs.

We Offer

• Competitive Salary: Attractive compensation package.
• Equity: Founding-team equity.
• AI Resources: Unlimited tokens across every AI model and a healthy budget for AI tools and peripherals.

About the Company

Cardboard is revolutionizing video editing by providing a real video editor in the browser, backed by a robust cloud media pipeline and an AI agent that understands footage. We're backed by YC and founders of billion-dollar companies, and we're on a mission to make video creation easier and more powerful.