Generalist Software Engineer
About The Position
Join Hire Hangar and work with fast-growing global companies while building a long-term, remote career. We are seeking a Generalist Software Engineer to join the founding team of a fast-moving AI video infrastructure startup. The company's first product turns prompts and documents into whiteboard-style explainer videos in seconds, with a broader mission of making video generation fast, cheap, and programmable enough for AI to use anywhere it currently uses text. As a founding team member, you'll move fluidly across frontend, backend, and product surfaces, tackling whatever the product needs most at any given time. This role is built for someone who doesn't need clear lanes or a hand-off from someone else to make progress. You will work directly with the founder and play a direct role in shaping the team's technical culture from the start.
Requirements
- Demonstrated full-stack experience shipping modern web applications
- Comfortable working with typed languages, frontend frameworks, backend APIs, databases, and cloud services
- Sharp product judgment and ability to simplify complicated workflows
- Ships quickly while protecting the reliability of critical systems
- Owns outcomes fully, from initial problem framing to final launch
- Comfortable leveraging AI tools for speed, while using personal judgment to guide direction
- Must be willing to work on-site in San Francisco, CA
Nice To Haves
- Background working on a small or founding engineering team
- Comfortable operating without predefined specs or rigid processes
- Experience collaborating directly with a founder or small leadership team
Responsibilities
- Ship features across the full stack, from backend logic to user-facing UI
- Build and maintain APIs for core workflows like projects, jobs, and billing
- Design frontend experiences that are fast, clear, and trustworthy
- Improve areas like onboarding, account management, and usage insights
- Work closely with product, design, and customer feedback to guide priorities
- Produce maintainable, well-documented code for a growing team
Benefits
- competitive pay
- real growth opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
