Software Developer, Avid/Adobe Premiere Plugins (Panel + REST API)

DigitalFish partners with leading digital media companies to build next-generation platforms and experiences. This role involves working with editors and engineers to design and build Premiere or Avid panels/plugins with modern UIs, implementing secure REST API integrations, managing authentication and local caching, and handling media import. The developer will also ensure robust error handling, package plugins for Windows and macOS, and collaborate on ongoing maintenance and extensions.

Must Have

• Design and build Premiere or Avid panels/plugins with modern, responsive UI
• Implement secure API integration for search and media retrieval (REST + JSON)
• Manage authentication (OAuth or token-based) and local caching of remote assets
• Handle media import: download or stream clips, create subclips, and insert them into active sequences or bins
• Ensure robust error handling, offline tolerance, and smooth user experience
• Package and sign the plugin across Windows and macOS versions
• BS degree in Computer Science or related fields
• Professional experience building and shipping Premiere Pro and/or Avid Media Composer plugins
• Solid understanding of CEP panel API, Premiere DOM, and ExtendScript or modern JavaScript (for Premiere)
• Solid understanding of Panel SDK, AVX2, or AMA plugin development (for Avid)
• Proficiency in web integration: REST APIs, async JS, JSON parsing, authentication
• Familiarity with video import, proxies, subclips, and metadata management in pro NLEs
• Experience delivering cross-platform plugin packages, signing, and deployment
• Proof of eligibility to work in the United States

Good to Have

• UXP bonus for Premiere

Perks & Benefits

• Opportunity for continued feature development and maintenance
• Flexible working environment

Our mission at DigitalFish is to help our customers derive transformative value across their organizations by building next-generation technologies that define the future of digital-media creation and consumption for millions of users.

We have partnered with leading digital media companies, and are at the center of their efforts to build a new generation of platforms and experiences. Current and past customers include Apple, Google, Meta, Disney, DreamWorks, Activision, Technicolor, ESPN, LEGO, NASA and many others.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Work with editors and artists to understand requirements and desired workflow.
• Consult with engineering to assess backend capabilities and API integration points..
• Design and build a Premiere panel (CEP, UXP bonus) or Avid panel/plugin (Panel SDK, AVX2, or AMA) with a modern, responsive UI.
• Implement secure API integration for search and media retrieval (REST + JSON).
• Manage authentication (OAuth or token-based) and local caching of remote assets.
• Handle media import: download or stream clips, create subclips, and insert them into active sequences or bins.
• Ensure robust error handling, offline tolerance, and smooth user experience.
• Package and sign the plugin across Windows and macOS versions.
• Following the initial project, collaborate on an ongoing basis with backend and design teams to maintain and extend the plugin as platform capabilities grow.

WHO YOU ARE

• BS degree in Computer Science or related fields
• Professional experience building and shipping Premiere Pro and/or Avid Media Composer plugins
• For Premiere: solid understanding of CEP (UXP is a bonus) panel API, Premiere DOM, and ExtendScript or modern JavaScript
• For Avid: solid understanding of Panel SDK, AVX2, or AMA plugin development
• Proficiency in web integration: REST APIs, async JS, JSON parsing, authentication
• Familiarity with video import, proxies, subclips, and metadata management in pro NLEs
• Experience delivering cross-platform plugin packages, signing, and deployment
• Great communicator, able to explain ideas clearly to both engineers and artists
• Ability to iterate concepts rapidly, given input from target users and product managers
• Proof of eligibility to work in the United States

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• The pay offered will take into account internal parity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors
• Opportunity for continued feature development and maintenance
• Flexible working environment and more!

$50 - $80 an hour

ADDITIONAL INFO

DigitalFish is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process. We are determined to ensure that no applicant experiences discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, veteran status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

DigitalFish may share your personal information and resume with trusted partners only as necessary to help facilitate your employment journey.

DigitalFish is not able to sponsor immigration petitions for this role at this time.

All applicants must have the right to work in the United States.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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