Principal Software Engineer Product
Pika is an active AI creative platform for generating and editing video, images, and audio, with a creator-facing app and an API offering.
Funding history
About Pika
Pika, operated by Mellis, Inc., provides a generative-AI platform through its websites, mobile apps, APIs, and third-party platforms. Its current product covers video, image, and audio creation/editing and offers access to first-party Pika and third-party models through an aggregated API platform.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will define technical strategy for web and multi-platform products, lead real-time collaboration capabilities, deliver product features from ideation through iteration, integrate generative AI workflows, and improve observability for critical product features.
Requirements
- Software engineering
- Product engineering
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Go
- System design
- Distributed system
- API
- Cloud infrastructure
- AWS
- GCP
- Python
- GPU
- Generative AI
- LLM
- Observability
- Tracing
- Communication
- Leadership
Responsibilities
- Define architecture and technical strategy for web and multi-platform products
- Lead development of real-time collaboration, messaging, and multi-user interactions
- Drive features from ideation through launch and continuous improvement
- Integrate generative AI workflows into creative tooling
- Partner with product and design leaders on creative workflows
- Champion technical excellence through architecture reviews, mentorship, and proposals
- Improve metrics, tracing, and observability for product features
Benefits
- Equity
- Health benefits
- Monthly stipends
- Company retreats