Job Description
Nell
Every generation inherits a new medium. Ours is taking shape. Come build the future of media at Nell.
About the Role:
We're looking for a problem-solving full stack engineer to build new products and scale our systems. Our success depends on our ability to quickly iterate on products while ensuring they’re performant and reliable.
We value engineers who take initiative, demonstrate strong product instincts, and maintain a user-centric focus in their work.
What You’ll Do:
Collaborate with a team to design, build, and iterate on innovative audio/video product features
Work with our product team to translate user needs and research insights into scalable product solutions
Integrate advanced audio/video capabilities into our core offerings
Shape the technical roadmap for our media initiatives
Build scalable agentic systems for content creation
We’re Looking for Someone Who:
Has a proven track record of shipping impactful, user-focused products
Excels in environments with ambiguity and rapid change, turning complex requirements into practical, elegant solutions; operates proactively and can quickly learn new technologies and share your insights with your team
Has full-stack range across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, with a track record of close collaboration with product and design teams.
Makes decisions with a product-driven mindset — you weigh usability and user control just as heavily as technical sophistication
Strong Candidates May Also Have:
Experience building or supporting audio/video infrastructure at scale
Working knowledge of evaluation practices — automated testing, regression suites, and human review loops — to keep systems reliable in production.
Can design and ship agentic systems — multi-step pipelines, tool-calling agents, memory-backed assistants, or the like.
Is confident reasoning about multi-modal inputs (text, image, video) and how they come together in a real product experience.
Has familiarity with orchestrating models, APIs, and external tools, including graceful handling of retries, fallbacks, and edge cases.
Experience with audio processing tools such as ffmpeg
Experience with Postgres
Benefits:
Based out of our office in San Francisco, we love the energy of in-person collaboration.
Competitive Salary and Equity
Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental care
Flexible PTO Policy
Lunch and Dinner Service in the office
Wellness Benefit
401(k) Retirement Plan
Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit for Parking & Public Transit
Company-wide Retreats