Founding Frontend Engineer

Shade.inc•New York City, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Shade is scaling rapidly, having built out the combined tech of Frame.io and LucidLink, integrated with proprietary AI search and labeling. We serve as critical infrastructure for post-production houses, creative agencies, sports teams, and internal media teams at large companies, with customers including Salesforce, Snowflake, A24, and the Boston Celtics. We are experiencing significant growth, ingesting 50TB of data daily and growing 200% QoQ with 120% NRR. We recently closed a $14M Series A funding round. Our philosophy centers on the interface being the product, as customers use Shade extensively. We recognize the need for seamless integration between storage layers and other tools, and are addressing the limitations of traditional version control for creatives by building a UI that mirrors Git concepts for media teams. Data transfer is another key area we are solving, making it reliable and easy to move high volumes of data.

Requirements

4+ years of full-time engineering experience.
At least 2 years of experience owning a production frontend end to end.
Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals.
Production experience with Electron, including release workflows and over-the-air updates.
Comfort working in imperfect codebases with good judgment about when to clean up and when to ship.
Experience building interfaces that render complex media: video, audio, image previews.
Experience at a pre-Series B startup.
Ability to ship and maintain high volumes of quality code.
Experience with side projects used by thousands of people or owning frontend features end to end at previous companies.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Next.js and TanStack.
Experience with video tooling specifically.
Understanding of file system pain points.
Strong opinions and ability to defend them in decision-making processes.

Responsibilities

Own the development and architecture of the frontend, including the design system, state architecture, component library, and file organization.
Develop features for the desktop application, such as making remote 4K video files render, scrub, and play back instantly through a Chromium renderer via IPC.
Build Premiere panels that integrate with our authentication system and file system, allowing editors to search Shade and pull subclips into their timelines.
Optimize performance within a Chromium renderer, managing memory constraints while competing with applications like Premiere and DaVinci Resolve.
Shape the development of a unified monorepo with shared types across web, desktop, and mobile applications.
Manage the production surface, including the IPC between the renderer and the background ShadeFS process.
Oversee the auto-updater to ensure fixes are shipped without breaking existing customer versions.
Handle code-signing certificates required for build installation.