Senior Staff 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 design, build, launch, and scale user-facing AI-powered creative features. You will architect end-to-end solutions across frontend and backend systems, ensure quality and reliability, collaborate with design and product disciplines, run experiments, and mentor peers through code reviews and technical leadership.
Requirements
- 5+ years of senior engineering or product engineering experience
- Experience with user-facing features or creative tools
- Software engineering experience across frontend and backend systems
- Ability to design and build scalable product features end to end
- Experience shipping production software
- Coding skills with TypeScript, React, Python, Go, or similar technologies
- Architectural skills and product detail
- Communication, mentorship, and technical leadership skills
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and launch AI-powered video and multimedia product features
- Translate creative possibilities into user-facing features
- Architect and implement end-to-end product solutions
- Ensure product quality, performance, and reliability
- Conduct code reviews and promote engineering practices
- Iterate on features, prototypes, and experiments
- Partner with product and UX to deliver accessible user experiences
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Monthly stipends
- Company retreats