Frontline Post-Production Software Engineer

Wizard, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Wizard, Inc. in San Francisco seeks a technical generalist who blends post-production experience with strong software skills to help editors and studios leverage our AI-native platform. You’ll work closely with customers, understand their needs, and shape solutions that ship on one-day cycles.

Reporting to the beta lead, you’ll own customer accounts end-to-end, fix high-priority issues within hours, and turn real-world use into product improvements. Core stack is C++ and headless runtime.

Qualifications

• Time in post-production: you've cut, colored, mixed, or otherwise worked in post-production yourself.
• Strong product judgment: you define what success looks like, test your assumptions, and use evidence to decide what to build.
• Deep software fundamentals: memory management, concurrency, data structures, and system design. You can defend the engineering decisions you make.
• AI-assisted engineering: deep experience using AI coding tools to build and ship software.
• User understanding: you ask good questions, uncover the real problem, and connect technical choices to how people work.
• Ownership: you move work forward independently and follow through after launch.

Responsibilities

• Own customer accounts end to end: onboarding, delivery, adoption, and ongoing success, starting with Story and paid beta seats.
• Fix P0 issues within hours, not weeks, and document root causes so they never recur.
• Build custom pipeline glue for studio customers via the Wizard Headless CLI as it lands.
• Build and ship features, integrations, and workflow improvements on one-day cycles.
• Decide what to build, and what not to build.
• Turn lessons from customer projects into improvements for all users.

Skills

Post-production experience

Product judgment

Software fundamentals

AI coding tools

User understanding

Ownership

Job description

Wizard, Inc. in San Francisco seeks a technical generalist who blends post-production experience with strong software skills to help editors and studios leverage our AI-native platform. You’ll work closely with customers, understand their needs, and shape solutions that ship on one-day cycles.

Reporting to the beta lead, you’ll own customer accounts end-to-end, fix high-priority issues within hours, and turn real-world use into product improvements. Core stack is C++ and headless runtime.