Senior Software Engineer, Editor Platform

Senior Software Engineer, Editor Platform

Sequence, founded in 2021, is the maker of the Sequence Editorial OS, which lets filmmakers collaborate on editing, color-grading, and other post-production tasks in real-time. Sequence is venture backed and the team includes former senior talentfrom AVID and Adobe Premiere Pro.

About the Role

In this software engineering role, you will architect and build APIs, services, and user interfaces powering our next generation video editing tools. We're looking for an experienced individual contributor who can own development end-to-end, leading with the right architecture, and following sound engineering principles to deliver maintainable, performant code. In this role you may act as a formal or informal tech lead to other team members.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline. Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures.
• 4+ years of professional experience shipping user-facing features or products as a full-stack developer. This should include experience in data modeling, API design, and building intuitive user interfaces—You love to design systems and user interfaces that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns/practices
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.
• Take pride in landing projects involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• Think about systems, services, and user interfaces, and write high quality code. We work mostly in Typescript, Svelte, Rust, and Python.
• Excellent communication skills. You are an excellent visual and written communicator, able to document your solutions so that other team members can understand how they work, how to maintain them long term, and to explain the trade-offs/risks with engineering decisions.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and k8s. You're not afraid to dig into running services to debug and fix problems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven Project Leadership – Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects from start to finish, managing scope, prioritizing tasks, and ensuring timely delivery with clear stakeholder communication. In an early stage startup environment, you are comfortable directly reporting to the CEO and delivering mission critical projects.
• Effective Decision-Making in Ambiguity – Strong decision-making skills in uncertain situations, balancing technical and business needs to guide teams through challenges.
• Operational Excellence in Production Systems – Hands-on experience running highly reliable production systems, understanding the importance of robust operational tooling and delivering it. You have experience building tooling, or infrastructure that serves other engineers, with a long-term and platform-oriented mindset.
• Commitment to Clean, Well-Tested Code – You write code that is functional, maintainable, and efficient. You write comprehensive testing to ensure reliability and prevent future issues and to create robust and scalable systems that other engineers can build upon with confidence.
• Deep Understanding of the Web Browser - We leverage web technologies such as WebRTC, WebGL, WebAssembly. You have a deep understanding of the browser architecture that allows you to deliver desktop class software over the Web.
• Experience with media technologies - Familiarity with tools like FFMPEG, GStreamer, and Pipewire are a plus

Why Join Us:

• A rare opportunity to be part of a early stage team and shape a revolutionary product.
• Competitive salary + equity compensation package.
• Full medical, health, and dental benefits.
• Relocation is covered to Los Angeles/Long Beach—work with the team in our new office with a state of the art video studio.
• Unlimited PTO - 3 weeks recommended per year.

The Long Beach, CA base pay range for this role is $150,000 - $200,000. This salary range is an estimate. Actual salary will be based on job related skills, experience and location. Pay ranges outside Long Beach may be adjusted based on employee location. The total compensation package also includes benefits and equity-based compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your location during the hiring process.

Sequence is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Sequence encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.

How to Apply

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit their resume and cover letter detailing their qualifications and vision for the role via email to careers@sequence.film. Write "Senior Software Engineer, Editor Platform" in subject line and include your Linkedin/GitHub/Twitter/etc, or any other links that best showcase the relevant things you've built or done.