Senior Backend Engineer

About Hedra

Hedra is a pioneering video foundation model company founded by former Stanford PhDs and backed by top investors at Index, A16Z Games, and Abstract Ventures. Our mission is to revolutionize content creation by building a unified creation studio that empowers users to generate dialogue, audio, and video, effectively automating their digital presence.

Our flagship product, Character-1, launched in late June and has already garnered national attention, landing us on the top of Reddit and Twitter, while attracting over 450,000 registered users and generating millions of videos. We raised 10 million dollars in our seed round to revolutionize content creation.

Job Summary

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy the backend services that power our transformative products, including Create, Stylize, and Studio. You will work with web and video standards to power our suite of web-based video creation and editing tools. You will also dive deep into video container formats and streaming protocols, such as MP4, MKV, HLS, and MP-DASH, and work with tools such as FFMPEG.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs.
• Deploy services to our Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Write secure, stable, and scalable Python code.
• Interface with our ground-breaking foundation models.
• Integrate with SQS, Kafka, S3, and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic.
• Collaborate with passionate engineers and top researchers to build disruptive technology.

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience developing scalable services using Python.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI and Pydantic.
• Familiarity with authentication/authorization standards such as OAuth2, OIDC, and JWT.
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL datastores (such as DynamoDB).
• Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD.
• Experience writing scalable, async, parallelizable code.
• Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS.
• Familiarity with event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS.
• Startup experience is a must.
• Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs and supporting real-time messaging using WebSockets.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Familiarity with audio/video web standards and tools, such as Webcodecs, WebRTC, HLS, MP-DASH, FFMPEG, MP4, and MKV is a plus.
• At least 3 years of professional experience with Python or Golang.

Personality Traits

• Self-motivated and independent.
• Strong communication skills.
• Mission-driven with a passion for building impactful products.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity.
• 401k.
• Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental).
• Gym access.

Join us at Hedra and be part of a team that is fundamentally changing content creation and building a generational company together. This role requires working in-person in either NYC or San Francisco.