Software Engineer II - Desktop Applications

"The AI company that's revolutionizing Hollywood"

Flawless is shattering the boundaries of traditional filmmaking with its groundbreaking suite of Gen AI film editing tools. Our mission is to empower filmmakers with cutting-edge technology that allows creativity without compromise, expands storytelling possibilities, and delivers unparalleled visual and emotional experiences. 

We are also setting new standards in ethical AI by creating the Artistic Rights Treasury (A.R.T.), a rights management solution designed to protect artists and rights holders within the Entertainment landscape.

What we are looking for:

We’re searching for talented and product-driven Engineers to be part of a dynamic, cross-functional team that's building cutting-edge software designed to empower creatives in the film industry. If you’re passionate about solving complex problems and enjoy seeing the direct impact of your work, this role could be for you!

Within this specific role we are looking for someone that will enjoy building complex desktop applications and plugins for our core tool and well used industry media and editing applications.

This is an exciting moment for us—we’re expanding as we commercialize our product, and we’re looking for engineers eager to take on the full spectrum of product and customer challenges from start to finish.

Technology

• Rust to write our Plugins and applications within this team
• Installers for Mac and Windows
• Temporal for workflow orchestration
• Terraform and Docker to schedule and run our services
• AWS for most of our infrastructure
• React for our user facing web applications

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain our products, written in Rust, Python and Typescript, specifically building plugin applications such as Avid, Premier Pro and similar.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Deliver product features and solve medium scope engineering challenges.
• Break down medium sized engineering problems in collaboration with more senior engineers.

You should apply if

• you have strong experience working on desktop applications and building plugins
• you’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
• you’re interested in writing resilient software
• you have some experience with python and an interest in Rust
• You are interested in writing plugins for video editing applications
• you are interested in the AI space or film industry

Reports to:

Our Senior Engineering Manager - Michael Long

Interview Process:

At Flawless, our team and interview process want to help you show your best self. We’ll dive into past projects and simulate working together.

Our interview process is three interview rounds with some casual Zoom (or in-person) coffee in between to get to know each other:

- Recruiting Screen: 30-45 minute call with our recruiting team (We want to discuss your interests and motivations as well as the practical details and make sure that Flawless would be a good fit for you)

- Coding Interview: 60 minute Zoom. This will be a technical paired-programming task with one of our engineering team. 

This is designed to be an open/pairing type exercise to assess your ability to parse simple requirements, translate those into code, and demonstrate your fluency with hands on coding.

- Team Interview: 2.5-3 hours onsite Interview where you will meet a variety of your potential future colleagues (We will have specific sessions that focus on how you collaborate with others and your technical experience.)

Your Recruiter and hiring manager will be your main point of contact and prepare you for interviews. You’ll meet 4 to 6 people from across the business. (We make sure that you have time in each interview to ask them questions). If we don’t give an offer, we’ll provide feedback!

Why work at Flawless

You will be working in an environment based on trust, autonomy and collaboration, and this is a great opportunity for someone who wants to be part of a growing company in its most exciting stage of development. You can play a part in shaping the future of a company that’s caring, creative and collaborative.

In addition to this, you'll also receive: 

- Autonomy

- A hybrid working environment

- Competitive Salary

- Stock Options

Flawless is proud to emphasize an equal opportunity, safe environment for people to do their best work. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.