Senior Full Stack Engineer

About Acacia Consulting:
We are a forward-thinking generative media company that empowers creatives with cutting-edge multimodal creation tools. Our team is passionate about pushing the boundaries of control, emotion, and creative intelligence in content creation.

Our flagship platform is built on an omnimodal foundation model that integrates image, text, and audio to enable intelligent video generation. This innovative technology has far-reaching implications for the future of content creation.

About the Role:
We're seeking a highly skilled Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our engineering group, you will design, build, and deploy the frontend and backend systems for our products. Your work will involve emerging web standards and advanced tools to create web-based video and audio editing applications.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing and deploying services to our Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Writing secure and scalable Python code.
• Integrating with our state-of-the-art foundation model.
• Building event streaming and processing logic using tools like SQS, Kafka, S3, and DynamoDB.

Requirements:
To be successful in this role, you'll need:

• 5 years of professional experience with JavaScript, React, NextJS, and TypeScript.
• A proven ability to work closely with design and product teams to deliver impactful engineering projects.
• A user-focused engineer passionate about delivering exceptional experiences to creatives.
• Familiarity with audio/video web standards and tools such as Webcodecs, WebRTC, HLS, MP-DASH, FFMPEG, MP4, and MKV.
• Experience in fast-paced startup environments with a strong work ethic and drive to innovate.

Preferred Qualifications:
We're looking for candidates with expertise in:

• Backend development with Python or Golang.
• Frontend development with React.
• Familiarity with authentication/authorization protocols like OAuth2 and OIDC.
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB).
• Knowledge of testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, including tools like Playwright.
• Expertise in advanced web technologies such as WASM, WebSockets, IndexedDB, Promises, and Generators.
• Proficiency in building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure with Kubernetes and EKS.
• Experience developing pipelines and event streaming/processing systems on AWS (e.g., SQS, Kafka).
• Experience creating REST APIs for distributed systems.
• Familiarity with deploying machine learning models using Kubernetes and Docker on NVIDIA hardware.

Culture Fit:
We're looking for individuals who are:

• Self-motivated and reliable, with the ability to set and meet development timelines.
• Collaborative and low-ego, with strong communication skills and patience.
• Focused on operational efficiency, considering both short- and long-term impacts.
• Mission-driven, with a passion for creating disruptive technology and contributing to a meaningful vision.

What We Offer:
We provide:

• Competitive compensation and equity opportunities.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision).
• Office perks, including lunch and snacks.