Senior Full-Stack Engineer, AI Editing

<h2><strong>The Pitch</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Slate is building an AI-first video editor where the AI agent isn’t a bolt on, it’s deeply integrated into the editor and the user’s brand and media library . You tell it what you want; it builds a plan, previews it, and executes across the timeline. We've built the early AI pipeline. Now we need a full-stack engineer to own the entire product experience on top of it: the chat-driven interface, timeline integration, streaming UI for AI plan previews, and the upload flows that feed into AI analysis. This is a high-ownership role on a small, fast-moving team. You'll ship real features end-to-end, from UI to backend services, in one of the most competitive spaces in video software right now.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What You'll Actually Do</strong></h2><h3><strong>Build the AI editing interface</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build the chat-driven editing interface, the primary way users communicate with the AI, including agentic loops, streaming response rendering, AI plan previews, and suggested action surfaces.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Integrate the AI pipeline's outputs into the editor: rendering model plans, handling async results, and keeping the UI responsive across long-running operations.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the properties panels, chat panels, and lightweight timeline components that make the AI-first experience feel native.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3><strong>Ship video processing UX</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build upload flows and media analysis state communication, the UX that bridges raw video input with AI-ready content.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design status indicators and progress surfaces for background processing, model inference, and asset analysis.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work closely with our AI Engineers to understand pipeline outputs and translate them into clear, actionable UI states.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3><strong>Own the full stack, end to end</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ship features end-to-end, from frontend components through to Node.js services to our Firebase and AWS DynamoDB persistence layer to our AWS infra.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Take prototype code and make it production-quality without needing every edge case spelled out</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate with a small, high-ownership team where engineering, product, and design are tightly coupled</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>You'd Be a Great Fit If</strong></h2><h3><strong>You have the experience:</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">5+ years of full-stack engineering, with a track record of shipping polished product features in production.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience building interfaces that consume AI or ML outputs; streaming responses, async workflows, plan-then-execute patterns.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfortable owning features from UI through to backend services without a handoff.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3><strong>You've done work like this before:</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Built UIs that handle streaming text or progressive AI responses.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Shipped product features involving video, media, or time-based content (a differentiator, not a requirement).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Worked in small teams with high ownership, moving from prototype to production quickly.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3><strong>You work the way we work:</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You care about the craft, the UI & product experience is top priority, not just functional.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You raise issues early and don't wait to be unblocked.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You think in systems: how the frontend state, the backend service, and the AI pipeline fit together.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Tech Stack</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, OpenAI / Anthropic APIs</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>The Details</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Location: </strong>Remote, anywhere from EST (UTC-5) to UTC+2</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Reporting to: </strong>AI Editor Lead</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Compensation: </strong>US $170k–200k | Rest of World $95k–140k USD + equity</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Benefits</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Equity options</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Unlimited PTO (we actually take it)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">$200/month wellness stipend</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Health insurance stipend</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Home office budget</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>About Slate</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Slate is the creative workspace for brand social teams. We help teams create and ship on-brand content fast with an all-in-one editor, built-in asset management, and seamless creative file workflows, backed by hands-on support from people who have done the job. Teams across top sports leagues and global brands like Amazon and Hoka use Slate every day to elevate their social presence.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em>Note: We do not sponsor work visas.</em></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em>Slate is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of background, identity, or experience.</em></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Slate is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of background, identity, or experience.</p>