Software Engineer, Video Processing

Captions is the leading video AI company, building the future of video creation. Over 10 million creators and businesses have used Captions to create videos for social media, marketing, sales, and more. We're on a mission to serve the next billion.

We are a rapidly growing team of ambitious, experienced, and devoted engineers, researchers, designers, marketers, and operators based in NYC. You'll join an early team and have an outsized impact on the product and the company's culture.

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

Check out our latest financing milestone and some other coverage:

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

About the role:
We are seeking a talented Software Engineer with demonstrated experience in video processing to join our software engineering team. In this role, you will design and optimize video encoding pipelines, ensuring high-quality video processing that powers our video creation tools. Your work will directly impact the performance and scalability of our video platform, enabling seamless video creation experiences for users all over the world. 

Responsibilities:

• Develop and optimize video encoding algorithms and workflows.

• Implement efficient video processing pipelines for encoding, decoding, and transcoding.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve video quality and performance.

• Stay updated on industry trends and emerging video technologies.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in video encoding technologies (e.g., H.264, HEVC, VP9, AV1).

• Proficiency with video processing frameworks and libraries (e.g., FFmpeg, GStreamer).

• Solid programming skills in Python, C++, or Rust (or related technologies).

• Experience optimizing video encoding for performance and scalability.

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!

• Doordash DashPass subscription

• Health & Wellness Perks (Talkspace, Kindbody, One Medical subscription, HealthAdvocate, Teladoc)

• Multiple team offsites per year with team events every month

• Generous PTO policy and flexible WFH days

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.

Compensation Range: $170K - $220K