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Fullstack Software Engineer

🏢 Heygen · 📍 San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Toronto 💰 $180,000 - $180,000 / yr
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

About HeyGen

At HeyGen, our mission is to make visual storytelling accessible to all. Over the last decade, visual content has become the preferred method of information creation, consumption, and retention. But the ability to create such content, in particular videos, continues to be costly and challenging to scale. Our ambition is to build technology that equips more people with the power to reach, captivate, and inspire audiences.
Learn more at www.heygen.com.  Visit our Mission and Culture doc here. 

Position Summary

As a full stack engineering on the product eng team you will be working on the most crucial product features to heygen. As a full stack developer you will be expected to take end to end ownership of feature all the way from the frontend to backend API to ML models.  You are someone who is passionate about creating impactful AI products, high levels of ownership and growth mindset.  Tech Stack: Typescript, react, python, Go

Key Responsibilities

  • Development: Design, develop, test, and deploy robust, scalable, and optimized features for the HeyGen platform across both front-end and back-end components.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with UX/UI designers, product managers, and other engineering teams to deliver a holistic product experience to our users.
  • Maintenance & Optimization: Monitor platform performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions in a timely manner. Ensure the platform remains updated, secure, and compliant with the latest industry standards.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 3+ years of experience in Full Stack Software Development.
  • Experienced with React, Javascript, Python, etc
  • Experienced with RESTful API development.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Familiarity with database systems such as MySQL

What HeyGen Offers<

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluating extreme execution speed, deep AI/video generative intuition, and an owner-operator mentality with zero ego.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Expressing a preference for heavy corporate bureaucracy or lengthy planning cycles over fast experimentation.
  • 2. Coming across as a manager rather than a hands-on doer who can build and ship independently.
  • 3. Lack of deep familiarity with modern generative AI video landscapes and foundational model constraints.
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I have spent my career scaling AI-native products by treating deployment speed as a core feature, and I want to help HeyGen completely redefine the future of human-video communication.

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