Captions is the AI-powered creative studio. Millions of creators around the world have used Captions to make their video content stand out from the pack and we're on a mission to empower the next billion.

Based in NYC, we are a team of ambitious, experienced, and devoted engineers, designers, and marketers. You'll be joining an early team where you'll have an outsized impact on both the product and company's culture.

We’re very fortunate to have some the best investors and entrepreneurs backing us, including Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Uncommon Projects, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Antoine Martin, Julie Zhuo, Ben Rubin, Jaren Glover, SVAngel, 20VC, Ludlow Ventures, Chapter One, Lenny Rachitsky, and more.

Check out our latest milestone and our recent feature on the TODAY show and the New York Times.

** Please note that all of our roles will require you to be in-person at our NYC HQ (located in Union Square) **

Responsibilities

• As our first software engineer focused solely on data, you will lay the foundation for Captions' decision-making ability by building and implementing essential data processes, pipelines, systems, and infrastructure.

• Define our data engineering stack through data modeling and developing our ETL pipelines, data warehouse, schemas, and data storage solutions from the ground up.

• Design, build, and maintain our analytics data warehouse to provide clean, accurate, and robust data sets to be leveraged by data science, analytics, and business intelligence.

• Partner closely with data scientists to build scalable data processing solutions that deliver high-quality data and analytics.

• Develop best practices for governance of data sets with sensitive information.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience developing and scaling sophisticated data ecosystems, ideally for data science or decision science teams.

• Familiar with technologies like BigQuery, Airflow, Fivetran, Snowflake, DBT (or related), and a strong background in distributed data processing, data modeling, and software engineering of data services.

• Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with data architecture, data warehouse design and implementation, modern cloud technologies, and building high-performance data pipelines.

• Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals (algorithms and data structures).

Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

• 401K with employer match

• Anything you need to do your best work

• We’ve done team off-sites to places like Paris, London, Park City, Los Angeles, Upstate NY, and Nashville with more planned in the future.

Captions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Please note benefits apply to full time employees only.