Software developer

At Storykit, we believe great content should never go unseen. Too many overworked teams create brilliant blog posts, customer stories, and reports, only to post them once and watch them disappear. Our AI-powered text-to-video platform changes that, automatically transforming written content into multiple short, scroll-stopping videos for LinkedIn and beyond. We keep brands visible, relevant, and impossible to ignore.

How you will make life easier for hundreds of millions of storytellers worldwide:

The heart of our business is to make it easy and fast for our users to create really good looking videos, and with the increase of users and video renders we always strive to improve the way we build and render the videos for our users to be faster and more efficient.

Your responsibilities include:

Development of our video rendering & compositing engine and related support systems, mainly using Rust.

Enable the creative ideas from our motion graphics team by introducing new features or tools.

Be part of integrating the video rendering system functionality and its data structure with the web based frontend.

Take a large responsibility for your code by moving it all the way from an idea to deployed and maintained in a production environment.

What about the tech?

Our rendering solution is a distributed system using an AWS-hosted Kubernetes cluster and a message queue system that creates a fully finished video - a Rube Goldberg machine for videos. The largest part of the system is written in Rust with support from applications written in TypeScript and Python.

The system accepts our custom json data structures to combine video assets, images and audio into a final video with animations, transitions, effects and mixed audio. The system uses WebGPU and Vulkan for graphics-intensive processing.

We are compiling some of this to WebAssembly and use within our frontend to enable faster interactions for our customers.

While you are expected to mainly work in Rust, there are situations where you might have to write TypeScript or JavaScript to interact with our back-/frontend services.

Please note that we don't expect you to have experience working with all the tech we use, instead we hope you want to grow in your role with us

What about the team?

Glad you asked Team spirit and collaboration are super important for us and currently, we're 10+ developers working together to make our product great.

We're organised into functional teams that have full-stack competence, hence they are responsible for everything from designing the feature to implementing, testing and deploying their code.

The Video team - where you would join - is a team that consists of two video engineers and two motion developers, working closely together to make all the moving parts look awesome. The team thrives and lives with a high level of autonomy where all of its members partake and decide what we should do next.

We also have a cross-team that includes functions that work with several teams (such as DevOps, UI/UX, CTO).

Ownership and autonomy are super important for us, and usually, our developers work on a feature from design and development, to release and maintenance in production.

What can you expect from us?

At Storykit, you can expect a safe and open-minded environment that is both challenging and ambitious. We give all employees a lot of responsibility from day one.

We set high goals, but also make sure that everyone has the right support to be able to reach them. Due to our steady growth pace, there are plenty of opportunities for development in the organization. You will work in an awesome team, and with generous terms & conditions.

Who are we looking for - really?

You love making things look good with code. We'd prefer that you have at least five years of experience working within some parts of software that preferably handles the graphics of videos or image processing. You're comfortable using Rust and have also done quite a lot of programming in C/C++. You know about pretty much all commands that can be made with ffmpeg and probably hate using 90% of them. It's also a plus if you think WebAssembly is exciting and something you'd like to use in the future.

In short, we believe that you have:

Some kind of academic education.

Good communication skills in English.

Around five years of experience with Rust, C++, C or other system programming languages.

At least some experience with web development using JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks and preferably dabbled with WebAssembly.

Join the fun

You will work with the base at our HQ in central Stockholm. We hope you're up for the challenge and look forward to hearing more about you - submit your application today

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