Frontend Engineer

The role

You will build performant, responsive web UIs using React and Next.js. You will collaborate with design and product to shape features and maintain a design system.

What you will do

• Build beautiful, performant, responsive web UIs using React and Next.js
• Translate designs into high-quality code
• Collaborate with design and product to shape new features from concept to launch
• Implement and maintain our design system and component library
• Own integrations with internal and 3rd-party APIs
• Identify and eliminate technical debt, simplify architecture, and improve performance
• Champion quality through testing, code reviews, documentation, and best practices
• Explore new technologies through rapid prototyping and R&D
• Contribute to a high-velocity, collaborative engineering culture
• Stay up-to-date with AI coding tools to gain leverage and velocity

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of professional frontend experience (React, Next.js, or similar frameworks)
• A strong sense of product and design
• Experience building production apps from scratch
• Solid knowledge of modern frontend architectures and web video technologies
• Proficiency with Figma and collaborating closely with design
• Strong communicator with high emotional intelligence
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward action

Nice to have

• API development with Node.js
• WebAssembly and/or WebGL
• AI Engineering
• Familiarity with CI/CD and APM tools

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision)
• Generous PTO

About the company

Capsule is a Series A startup building an AI-powered video editing tool. It is backed by investors behind Webflow, Figma, Slack, and Replit.