This is a hybrid in-person role in SF - we work in person 3 days a week.

About Shortbread

Shortbread is Netflix for comics, powered by an AI Comics Studio.

Traditionally, comics are drawn by hand by multiple artists. Shortbread Studio speeds up the process 10x, allowing anyone to bring a story idea to a high quality comic series in minutes.

On the Shortbread App, creators publish and sell their comic series for iOS and Android. We specialize in guilty-pleasure romance stories serving a mature audience.

We’re a team of webtoon artists, MIT and Berkeley engineers, backed by Y Combinator. We love visual stories and think everyone should have the power to create their own Batman, Slam Dunk, and Sailor Moon. We’re looking for an exceptional founding engineer to build the future of comics with us.

Your Responsibilities

Building features for Shortbread Studio using React and Typescript
Leading product development by communicating with artists who use Shortbread Studio
Proposing, designing, implementing, and owning projects while working directly with the founders
Applying cutting-edge generative AI research and technology to build an incredible interface. This is an open ended, deeply creative and technical problem space that combines art, AI, and engineering.

Requirements:

Proficient with TypeScript, React, and full-stack development (working with APIs, databases, data pipelines, etc.)
You move fast, have a strong bias for impact, and crave ownership
You’ve built something from scratch, whether that’s a side project, your own startup, or a team you led

Nice to Haves:

Passionate about webtoons, comics, art, story telling, or other visual art-forms
Experience with Stable Diffusion / generative AI
Experience with mobile development in Flutter
Ex-founder, or previously have worked at a high-growth company such as a startup

Shortbread

Founding Engineer

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About Shortbread