Software Engineer, Web Product

Mirage is seeking a Software Engineer, Web Product to own end-to-end product experiences for creative workflows, pushing the boundaries of browser capabilities. This role involves building sophisticated creative tools, video & graphics rendering, and integrating large generative AI models. As an early team member, you will have significant ownership and influence on product development and company culture, working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Must Have

• Ship end-to-end product experiences for creative workflows
• Own features from initial concept through production and iteration
• Build highly polished, performant user experiences for complex, media-rich creation and interaction
• Build full-stack solutions balancing performance, scalability, and extensibility
• Understand AI system capabilities and limitations for thoughtful integration
• Instrument, experiment, and iterate rapidly in production using data and feedback
• 5+ years of professional industry experience
• Strong full-stack development experience with modern web technologies (React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js)
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals

Good to Have

• Experience with complex rendering or real-time media processing
• Grounded, collaborative, and willing to help the team win
• Startup founder or early engineer experience

Perks & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401K with employer match
• Commuter Benefits
• Catered lunch multiple days per week
• Dinner stipend every night if working late
• Grubhub subscription
• Health & Wellness Perks (Talkspace, Kindbody, One Medical subscription, HealthAdvocate, Teladoc)
• Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month
• Generous PTO policy

Mirage is the leading AI short-form video company. We’re building full-stack foundation models and products that redefine video creation, production and editing. Over 20 million creators and businesses use Mirage’s products to reach their full creative and commercial potential.

We are a rapidly growing team of ambitious, experienced, and devoted engineers, researchers, designers, marketers, and operators based in NYC. As an early member of our team, you’ll have an opportunity to have an outsized impact on our products and our company's culture.

Our Products

• Captions
• Mirage Studio

Our Technology

• AI Research @ Mirage
• Mirage Model Announcement
• Seeing Voices (white-paper)

Press Coverage

• TechCrunch
• Lenny’s Podcast
• Forbes AI 50
• Fast Company

Our Investors

We’re very fortunate to have some the best investors and entrepreneurs backing us, including Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncommon Projects, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Lenny Rachitsky, Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo, Ben Rubin, Jaren Glover, SVAngel, 20VC, Ludlow Ventures, Chapter One, and more.

\*\* Please note that all of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ (located in Union Square)

We do not work with third-party recruiting agencies, please do not contact us\*\*

About the role

Our product engineers own end-to-end product experiences for creative workflows—pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the browser by building sophisticated creative tools that span delightful user interfaces, video & graphics rendering, and the integration of large generative AI models. As a small, collaborative team, our product engineers are trusted with a high degree of ownership and agency—directly influencing what we build and how we build it.

Responsibilities

• Ship end-to-end product experiences for creative workflows, owning features from initial concept through production and iteration
• Push the boundaries of what’s possible in the browser, building highly polished, performant user experiences for complex, media-rich creation and interaction
• Build full-stack solutions that balance performance, scalability, and extensibility—including APIs, data flows, and services that support real-time and asynchronous workflows
• Understand the capabilities and limitations of modern AI systems and work with the team to integrate them thoughtfully into product surfaces
• Instrument, experiment, and iterate rapidly in production, using data, A/B tests, and user feedback to guide decisions

What makes you a great fit

• 5+ years of professional industry experience
• Excellent engineering taste combined with a strong sense of practicality and time-management
• Able to operate effectively in an extremely fast-paced environment as well as scope and deliver projects end-to-end
• Strong full-stack development experience with modern web development technologies (React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js), API frameworks, and cloud platforms
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals (algorithms and data structures)

Even better if…

• Experience with complex rendering or real-time media processing
• You are grounded, collaborative, and willing to do whatever it takes to help the team win
• You have been a startup founder or an early engineer at one

Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401K with employer match
• Commuter Benefits
• Catered lunch multiple days per week
• Dinner stipend every night if you're working late and want a bite!
• Grubhub subscription
• Health & Wellness Perks (Talkspace, Kindbody, One Medical subscription, HealthAdvocate, Teladoc)
• Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month
• Generous PTO policy

Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Please note benefits apply to full time employees only.