Founding Engineer

About Us

Shortbread is a powerful and highly controllable comics studio powered by an AI copilot. Traditionally, comics are drawn by hand by multiple artists. Shortbread’s editor speeds up the process 5-10x, and allows anyone to create comics without requiring drawing skills.

We are a team of webtoon artists, MIT and Berkeley engineers, backed by Y Combinator. We love visual stories and think everyone should have the power to create their own Batman, Slam Dunk, and Sailor Moon. We are looking for creative and innovative technologists to build together the future of comics.

Why Join Us?

• We are transforming the $8B webcomic industry. Our technology enables anyone with a great story to create webcomics professionally, at unprecedented speeds.
• We are a small team of less than 10 people. You will join as one of the first engineers with immediate ownership, impact, and work directly with the founders.
• Our work involves imagining how we can apply cutting-edge Generative AI research and technology to build an incredible interface. This is an open ended, deeply creative and technical problem space that combines art, AI, and engineering.
• We are a small (<10) intimate team that values building community
• Work in-person in SF 3 days a week
• 401(k) plan
• Healthcare benefits

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience with full stack development
• Test, monitor and optimize solutions and performance on a variety of browsers
• On the front end we use React, Typescript, and TailwindCSS
• On the backend: NodeJS, ExpressJS, Flask
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript in addition to the modern frameworks listed above
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable frontend and backend code.
• Experience working with NoSQL databases (Firestore) as well as developing APIs and web services
• Experience with cloud computing services (GCP, AWS), containers (Docker), and building distributed systems at scale
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Nice to Haves:

• Passionate about webtoons, comics, art, story telling, or other visual artforms
• Experience with graphic / visual design
• Experience with Stable Diffusion A1111 and Generative AI technologies

1. Screening call
2. Technical interview (React and TypeScript live challenge followed by a system design interview)
3. 2 week paid work trial