Senior Frontend Engineer

Wondercraft; England; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Wondercraft, a pioneering startup in AI-powered content creation, is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to enhance their innovative audio editing editor. This role involves collaboration on the product design and utilizing cutting-edge technologies to deliver a top-tier user experience. Joining now offers a unique chance to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing company, with the potential for equity and substantial learning opportunities in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Private health insurance

Opportunity for equity

Rapid feature deployment environment

Learning from experienced founders

Qualifications

• Excited to build a state-of-the-art media editing suite.
• Proficient with frontend technologies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with founders and product team to implement designs into a functional front-end.
• Build using Next.js, Typescript, React, and canvas APIs.

Skills

Communication

Logical Thinking

Proficiency in Frontend Technologies

Experimentation

Interest in AI Advancements

Job description

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join us on our mission to make audio content creation seamlessly easy and collaborative. You will work with directly with our CTO and the entire engineering team to own building out the Wondercraft editor, to build the best audio (and more) editing experience. The Job Description will continue to evolve, but these are the key areas of responsibilities for now:

• Work with the founders & product team to materialize designs into a clean, functional, and reactive front-end
• Build using Next.js, Typescript, React, and some low-level canvas APIs

About YOU

We are looking for someone who:

• Is excited by the ability to build a state of the art media editing suite
• Is a great communicator and a logical thinker
• Isn’t afraid to experiment, fail, and iterate
• Is ready to go at full speed with the team
• Is proficient in with prevailing frontend technologies, but is framework agnostic and understands the basics
• Is ready to join the mission of a small team taking on a big industry
• Is interested in AI advancements
• Has startup experience (huge plus)
• Has built something like this for a startup like ours (huge plus)

What’s in it for you?

• Simply: Wondercraft is the best positioned company in the world right now to build an AI-powered content creation suite.
• Wondercraft is one of the fastest growing AI companies, especially in the AI content space and will soon be raising a Series A round. Joining now gives you the opportunity to get equity at a very meaningful value.
• At Wondercraft, you have the chance to really make a difference by getting your hands dirty and building something rapidly. We believe in building magic at lightning speed. We’ve been proud to ship quality features every single week, and we intend to only increase this pace even further.
• At Wondercraft, you have the chance to grow. Working in a small team means you are working directly with the Founders. Regardless of your career aspirations, you would have so much to learn from Wondercraft.

Plus some on-the-job benefits:

• Salary range £110K-£125K depending on seniority level. We are keen to compensate for the value you create!
• Private health insurance so that we can take care of your physical health.
• Hybrid working. We would prefer to all work together in our office in central London because we believe face-to-face contact time is essential for us growing together a team. That said, we don’t mind if you work from home one or two days a week.

About Wondercraft

What we do

Wondercraft is an AI audio editor to create podcasts, ads, audiobooks, and more by simply typing. Script, voice and produce audio on 30+ languages in a collaborative, easy-to-use platform.

Our Vision

We want to to empower the world to create & voice ideas, by enabling anyone to craft & tell their stories – without expensive equipment or language barriers.

Funding

Wondercraft is a seed-stage startup, founded by two ex-Palantir software engineers in early 2023, backed by YC at pre-seed and Will Ventures at seed-stage.

Team

Wondercraft was founded by a team of that comes from Palantir and Spotify. Our head of design was the first designer at Canva and helped grow it to a $45b valuation.