Web / Database Engineer

Wizard Studios; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Wizard Studios in San Francisco is seeking a full-stack engineer to own the web platform end-to-end, from API design to performance and deployment. You will design scalable APIs and help deliver collaborative editing features that integrate with our Wiz CLI core.

We value deep PostgreSQL knowledge, modern web frameworks, and CI/CD excellence. This role is based in San Francisco and focuses on building AI-native workflows for production and post workflows.

Qualifications

• Proficient with TypeScript and scalable web apps.
• Experience with Postgres or equivalent RDBMS.
• Strong API design using REST or GraphQL.
• Experience with modern web frameworks and CI/CD.
• Ability to own web platform end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Own the web platform end-to-end including API design and deployment.
• Build collaborative editing layers on top of Wizard primitives.
• Collaborate with editors, AI/ML teams to enable real-time workflows.

Skills

TypeScript

Postgres

API design

Modern web framework

CI/CD

Tools

Next.js

Remix

GraphQL

Job description

Wizard is the AI-native platform for creative work, starting with professional video: a native C++ editor and headless media runtime that humans, agents, and developers all operate.

Full-stack engineer with database depth, owning the web platform end-to-end: API design, schema, query performance, deploy.

Why this role matters

The .wiz semantic project file is our architectural moat — Adobe and DaVinci can't adopt it without starting from zero. Making that moat real outside the desktop app — for collaborative review, on-set metadata capture, and AI-native workflows — is what this role does.

The clearest example: Wiz-Live, our concept for collapsing the gap between production and post. Traditional film sets "slate" every take — a clapboard synced to timecode — so editorial, sound, and VFX can recover critical metadata after the fact (scene, take, camera, lens, who's who). It's valuable but slow, so many productions, including our own sister company Story, skip it. Wiz-Live's bet: link the shotlist directly to camera and computer at the moment of the take, so metadata is captured and attached automatically — with local inference (object detection, character tagging, ASR, proxying) layered on top. Done right, footage could be edited essentially as it's shot, with a rough assembly — director's favorite takes flagged — ready before the crew wraps for the day.

None of that works without a schema and pipeline that can take heterogeneous, high-frequency, on-set metadata and reliably link it to the right clip, in real time, in a way both editors and Wizard's AI can query later. That's this role.

About the role

Full-stack web engineer with database depth. Owns the web platform end-to-end: API design, schema, query performance, deploy. You'll build the collaborative layer on top of Wizard's primitives — a Frame.io-and-Figma hybrid: lightweight, collaborative editing and review tools built on the Wiz CLI the core team is already shipping.

What you'll do

Future roadmap this role feeds

• Plugins marketplace

• Editor client marketplace

• Far future: a chat-based app

What you bring

Required

• TypeScript

• Postgres (or comparable RDBMS)

• API design (REST or GraphQL)

• Modern web framework (Next.js, Remix, etc.)

• CI/CD comfort

Show us what you can do

Nice to have

• Realtime infra (websockets, pub/sub)

• Vector DB

• ML data pipelines

• n8n or workflow tooling

About Wizard

Every so often, a new technology redefines how stories get told: the printing press, the telephone, radio, the film camera, the cutting room, television, the digital camera, non-linear editing. We think we're at the start of the next one, and we intend to build the company that defines it.

Wizard is the AI-native platform for creative work, starting with the hardest creative workflow: professional video. In roughly six months, our team built a native C++ editor and a headless media runtime that humans, agents, and developers all operate. Oz, our agent, ingests footage at roughly 300× real time and edits at 30–60× real time, and every change it makes stays inspectable, editable, and reversible.

Our philosophy is creative as code: every decision editable, controllable, composable, never generative slop you regenerate and hope for the best. Controllability over convenience. Artist integrity over automation. Taste over throughput.

Our sister company is Story, a production company making video for frontier AI labs and deep-tech companies. We work closely with them: Story is our first customer and in-house design partner, and its editors cut real client work on Wizard every day.

Our team comes from Industrial Light & Magic, Netflix, Apple, Epic Games, Lucasfilm, Blizzard, and 2K. We work in person in San Francisco.