Founding Engineer

About Us

Shortbread is a powerful and highly controllable comics studio powered by an AI copilot. Traditionally, comics are drawn by hand by multiple artists. Shortbread’s editor speeds up the process 5-10x, and allows anyone to create comics without requiring drawing skills.

We are 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 are looking for creative and innovative technologists to build together the future of comics.

Why Join Us?

• We are an early stage fast growing startup with over 60k beta users. You will have ownership, impact, and responsibility. If that excites you then we'd love to have you on board.
• We are redefining the way that people make art. You will be exposed to / work with Stable Diffusion models and techniques (e.g. ControlNet) and other state of the art Generative AI applied research
• We are a small (<10) intimate team that values building community
• Work in-person in SF 3 days a week
• 401(k) plan
• Healthcare benefits

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience with full stack development
• Test, monitor and optimize solutions and performance on a variety of browsers
• On the front end we use React, Typescript, and TailwindCSS
• On the backend: NodeJS, ExpressJS, Flask
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript in addition to the modern frameworks listed above
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable frontend and backend code.
• Experience working with NoSQL databases (Firestore) as well as developing APIs and web services
• Experience with cloud computing services (GCP, AWS), containers (Docker), and building distributed systems at scale
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Nice to Haves:

• Passionate about webtoons, comics, art, story telling, or other visual artforms
• Experience with graphic / visual design
• Experience with Stable Diffusion A1111 and Generative AI technologies

1. Screening call
2. Technical interview (React and TypeScript live challenge followed by a system design interview)
3. 2 week paid work trial