Senior/Staff Product Engineer

New York

Software Engineering

Permanent

Our client, an AI-driven startup focused in the digital media industry, is hiring a Senior/Staff Product Engineer to join their team in Brooklyn, New York. The successful candidate will own key areas of the company’s frontend product, serving as a technical leader who shapes the canvas, workflow systems and media layer for image and video editing, while also guiding both the technical direction and growth of the product engineering team.

Responsibilities

Design and develop canvas and workflow systems that simplify even the most complex multi-step pipelines for users.
Enhance the company’s media control layer to deliver powerful image and video editing capabilities.
Ship high-performance, visually polished interfaces that meet the standards of professional creatives.
Drive architectural decisions across our frontend stack, including Next.js, React, Zustand, React Flow, Convex and Vercel.
Build and deliver features that span the full stack, ensuring seamless integration and performance.

Skillset

Minimum of 7 years of experience building web applications and delivering polished, production-ready products at scale.
At least 5 years of deep expertise with React and TypeScript, with strong opinions on component architecture, state management and performance.
Proven ability to craft high-performance, visually refined web applications.
Demonstrated technical leadership, e.g. setting direction, making architectural decisions and mentoring engineers.
Experience building AI-native applications is a bonus.
Familiarity with advanced web media APIs such as WebGL (@react-three/fiber), WebGPU, WebCodecs and WebAssembly is a plus.
Experience with 3D graphics or web-based audio/video streaming is an advantage.
Hands-on experience with professional creative tools like TouchDesigner, Ableton, DaVinci Resolve and Blender is a plus.