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Reels Engineer
EngineeringFull-timeRemote
The highlight reel is Partyreel's namesake and its emotional payoff: when the night winds down, we stitch the best moments into a short, shareable, downloadable video, automatically. We're building v1 now, and we're looking for the person to own this area end to end and make it sing.
What you'll do
- Design and build the pipeline that turns an event's clips into a finished reel: transcode, trim, compose, render, and generate a poster frame.
- Own the rendering architecture on an external worker (not Vercel), and help make the call between a managed video API and self-hosted ffmpeg on Cloudflare Containers.
- Develop the clip-selection logic that picks the moments worth keeping: heuristics now, smarter later.
- Keep reels fast, reliable, and beautiful at event scale, with an eye on unit economics.
- Shape the host experience around the reel: choosing clips, previewing, sharing, and downloading.
What we're looking for
- Real media/video engineering experience: ffmpeg, transcoding, encoding formats, A/V sync.
- Comfort owning a system end to end: queues and workers, object storage (S3/R2), and the tradeoffs of managed vs. self-hosted rendering.
- A bias for shipping a great v1 and iterating, pragmatic about scope and cost.
- Bonus: ML or heuristics for highlight detection; experience with Cloudflare Containers or serverless video.
What we offer
- Remote-friendly
- Meaningful early-stage equity
- Competitive compensation
- Lead a core part of the product
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