Lead Product Engineer

4 Months ago • 5 Years + • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Lead Product Engineer at Hedra, you'll design, build, and deploy frontend and backend services for Studio and Stylize. This includes developing web-based video and audio creation tools using Webcodecs, WebAssembly, and FFMPEG, along with frameworks like NextJS, React, Redux, Mobx, Typescript, and Javascript. Backend responsibilities involve building and deploying services to Kubernetes infrastructure using Python, interacting with the Character-3 foundation model, and integrating with various AWS services (SQS, Kafka, S3, DynamoDB). You'll collaborate with engineers and researchers on disruptive technology and work closely with design and product teams.
Must have:
  • 5+ years experience with Javascript, React, NextJS, Typescript
  • Collaboration with design and product teams
  • Product-focused, user experience passion
  • Audio/video web standards (Webcodecs, WebRTC) familiarity
  • Startup experience, high energy, product-driven
Good to have:
  • Python or Golang for scalable services
  • Experience with DynamoDB, unit/integration testing, CI/CD, Playwright
  • Familiarity with websockets, IndexedDB, promises, generators, coroutines
  • REST API integration for distributed systems
Perks:
  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • 401k
  • Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)
  • Lunch and snacks at the office

Job Details

About Hedra:

Hedra is a pioneering generative media company backed by top investors at Index, A16Z, and Abstract Ventures. We're building Hedra Studio, a multimodal creation platform capable of control, emotion, and creative intelligence.

At the core of Hedra Studio is our Character-3 foundation model, the first omnimodal model in production. Character-3 jointly reasons across image, text, and audio for more intelligent video generation — it’s the next evolution of AI-driven content creation.

Note: At Hedra, we’re a team of hard-working, passionate individuals seeking to fundamentally change content and build a generational company together. You should have start-up experience and be a self-starter that is driven to build impactful products that change the status quo. You must be willing to work in-person in either NYC or SF.

Summary:

As a Lead Product Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy the frontend and backend services that power our transformative products, including Studio and Stylize. You will work with emerging web standards to build web-based video and audio creation / editing tools, utilizing Webcodecs, web-assembly, and FFMPEG. You will also work with frameworks/languages such as NextJS, React, Redux, Mobx, Typescript, and Javascript, and dive deep into video container formats and streaming protocols, such as MP4, MKV, HLS, and MP-DASH.

You will also work on building and deploying backend services and APIs to our Kubernetes infrastructure, write secure, stable, and scalable Python code, interface with our ground-breaking foundation model, and integrate with SQS, Kafka, S3, and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic.

You will work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology. We’re looking for full-time hires for our New York or San Francisco offices.

Must-Have Experience:

  • 5+ years of professional experience with Javascript, React, NextJS, and Typescript.

  • Experience working closely with design and product to set and deliver engineering initiatives and projects.

  • A product-focused engineer who is passionate about the user experience and empowering creatives.

  • Familiarity with audio/video web standards and tools, such as Webcodecs and webRTC.

  • Startup Experience is a must — we work hard and build quickly. Ideal candidates should be passionate with an always-on attitude that drives them to live and breathe the product (not a “punch the clock” disposition).

  • Familiarity with authentication / authorization such as oauth2 and OIDC

Nice-To-Have Experience:

  • Experience developing scalable services using Python or Golang.

  • Experience working with relational and noSQL datastores (such as DynamoDB)

  • Experience writing unit and integration tests, working with CI/CD, and writing functional-tests using tools such as Playwright.

  • Strong familiarity with frameworks / standards / concepts such as websockets, IndexedDB, promises, generators, and coroutines.

  • Experience integrating with REST APIs for distributed systems.

Personality:

  • Self-motivated and independent — able to set accurate timelines for development and deliver on them. Have an opinion and the experience to backup that opinion.

  • Low ego, high patience, strong communication skills.

  • Understand operational costs and overhead short and long term.

  • Mission-driven — we are building something fundamentally disruptive and this reflects deeply in our company DNA.

  • And most importantly, treat Hedra as your own and help shape the vision accordingly

Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation and equity

  • 401k

  • Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)

  • Lunch and snacks at the office

We encourage you to apply even if you don't fully meet all the listed requirements; we value potential and diverse perspectives, and your unique skills could be a great asset to our team.

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About The Company

Hedra is a pioneering generative media company backed by top investors at Index, A16Z, and Abstract Ventures. We're building Hedra Studio, a multimodal creation platform capable of control, emotion, and creative intelligence.At the core of Hedra Studio is ourCharacter-3foundation model, the first omnimodal model in production. Character-3 jointly reasons across image, text, and audio for more intelligent video generation — it’s the next evolution of AI-driven content creation.

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