Frontend Developer

About the Role

We are looking for a Frontend Engineer with deep expertise in video-centric web applications to build and scale a next-generation AI video generation and video editing portal .

This role sits at the core of our product experience designing and developing video editors, real-time previews, timelines, overlays, and playback systems that allow users to generate and edit AI-powered videos directly in the browser.

You will work closely with product, design, backend, and AI/ML teams to ship high-performance, production-grade video tools used daily by global customers.

Key Responsibilities

Video & Frontend Engineering

• Design and build AI video generation and browser-based video editing UIs
• Implement custom video players supporting HLS adaptive streaming, MP4 playback, and real-time preview rendering

• Build video timelines, layers, overlays, captions, and scene-based editors

• Handle video state transitions: loading, rendering, processing, exporting, and playback

• Develop reusable video components for previews, thumbnails, scrubbers, and controls

Real-Time & System Integration

• Integrate with REST and WebSocket-based pipelines for real-time job updates

• Collaborate with backend teams on video processing workflows and export pipelines

• Handle edge cases like long-running jobs, retries, partial renders, and failures

Quality & Collaboration

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and frontend build workflows

• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and performance audits

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in frontend development

• Strong expertise in React.js + TypeScript/js

• Hands-on experience with video manipulation on web portals

• Solid understanding of:

• HLS, MP4, Media Source Extensions (MSE)

• Browser video APIs, Canvas, and rendering pipelines

• Experience building media-heavy UIs (editors, timelines, previews)

• Advanced state management (Redux Toolkit or similar)

• Strong grasp of browser performance optimization

• Proficiency with modern HTML, CSS, and CSS-in-JS solutions

• Comfortable with Git workflows, code reviews, and collaborative development

Nice to Have

• Experience with WebRTC or real-time video systems

• Familiarity with video analytics, watch-time tracking, and drop-off analysis

• Experience building WYSIWYG editors or drag-and-drop interfaces

• Basic understanding of backend systems (Node.js, Python, or Go)

• Open-source contributions or technical writing