About Lightnote

Lightnote is an applied AI company building a new creative canvas for the next generation of creators. Founded by a team from Spotify, Google and Oxford, our mission is to develop the next generation of creative tools that can allow creators to bring their ideas to life across any format - from images and videos to music and sound effects. Our investors include Shine Capital, South Park Commons, Vimeo’s former COO, and the early backers of Patreon and Epic Games.

What you’ll do 💻

As Lightnote’s founding engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the product and company while building the future of creative software from the ground up. You will start with the user’s needs, crafting an intuitive and powerful product that seamlessly integrates simple interfaces with a family of AI models working together to augment the creative process. Your work will unlock value for some of the largest companies and creator communities in the world, who we are proud to count as our early partners. You will:

• Design and develop user-friendly interfaces that make using Lightnote as natural as picking up a pencil. You will single-handedly build out our entire initial frontend.
• Build a robust backend that supports orchestrating AI models to work in harmony in real-time to augment specific creator workflows.
• Eventually lead the engineering team and exercise sound judgment on prioritising tech investments for immediate and future needs. You will define our tech stack, engineering culture, and engineering practices for the long term.
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our systems across the entire tech stack. You will write write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

Who you are 💫

• You have a builder mindset. You have a track record of shipping products in a fast-paced environment.
• A bias to productionise. You want (and know how) to push cutting edge AI to customers, in order to solve real-world problems.
• You are driven by building fantastic product experiences - if something's not right in the product, it nags you
• You thrive in a startup environment. You’re excited to solve user problems through quick iterations, you’re ok with priorities changing and you’re comfortable with risk.
• You value working with people who are low ego, ambitious and pragmatic.
• You are excited to figure out how to build things you haven't built before.
• Passionate about AI-first creative tools and the new creator economy

What you’ll need 🛠️

• Experience as an early engineer at a fast-growing startup.