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title: 'Frontend Engineer at Capsule'
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# Frontend Engineer at Capsule

- **Company:** Capsule
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-07-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/capsule/911f5125-8bc1-4978-9924-ba1f040b4a1e

## Job description

Capsule is building the world’s most intuitive AI-powered video editing tool, designed for modern teams. We’re a Series A startup led by two serial founders who have built and scaled creative platforms used by hundreds of millions of people. We’re backed by top-tier investors behind Webflow, Figma, Slack, and Replit.

We’ve grown quickly. In less than a year, 100+ enterprise teams—including HubSpot, ServiceNow, and Instacart—use Capsule to create high-quality, on-brand video content at scale.

We're hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to help us build the next generation of web-based video editing. You’ll be a key contributor to our engineering culture and product direction, working closely with design and product in a zero-ego, high-ownership environment.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Build beautiful, performant, responsive web UIs using React and Next.js
- Translate designs into high-quality code—adding the nuance that turns "good" into "great"
- Collaborate with design and product to shape new features from concept to launch Implement and maintain our design system and component library
- Own integrations with internal and 3rd-party APIs
- Identify and eliminate technical debt, simplify architecture, and improve performance
- Champion quality through testing, code reviews, documentation, and best practices
- Explore new technologies through rapid prototyping and R&D
- Contribute to a high-velocity, collaborative engineering culture
- Stay up-to-date with AI coding tools to gain leverage and velocity

## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- 4+ years of professional frontend experience (React, Next.js, or similar frameworks)
- A strong sense of product and design—your work should feel as good as it looks

## Experience building production apps from scratch

- Solid knowledge of modern frontend architectures and web video technologies
- Proficiency with Figma and collaborating closely with design
- Strong communicator with high emotional intelligence
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward action
- Bonus points for:
- API development with Node.js http://node.js
- WebAssembly and/or WebGL
- AI Engineering
- Familiarity with CI/CD and APM tools

## PERKS & BENEFITS

- Salary between 100k-170k USD +equity
- Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision)
- Generous PTO
- A diverse, mission-driven team with big ambitions and low ego

## About Capsule

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Capsule is an AI-powered video editor for enterprise teams that converts After Effects motion files into easy-to-use templates, enabling anyone to create on-brand videos at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Miami, Florida, United States (with offices in New York and Los Angeles)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Champ Bennett (Co-Founder & CEO) and Joseph Jorgensen (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Enterprise video creation, AI-powered video editing, motion design
- Target customers: B2B, Enterprise and mid-market teams (marketing, sales, customer success, internal communications)
- Mission or purpose: Make branded video creation accessible to every team in an organization, without overburdening creative teams

## Products & Services
- **Capsule Platform**: A video editing SaaS that turns motion design systems into reusable, brand-governed components. Features include AI-assisted editing, real-time collaboration, template-based video generation, and automatic brand enforcement. Users can edit videos as simply as filling out a form or using PowerPoint. Integrates with After Effects.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue: $6.0 million (LinkedIn data); Total Funding: $19.7 million across rounds (Pre-Seed $2M in 2021, Seed $5.7M in 2023, Series A $12M in 2025). Note: CB Insights reports total raised as $18.75M.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Innovation Endeavors (Series A lead), HubSpot Ventures, Swift.vc, Human Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Array Ventures. Angel investors include Emery Wells (Frame.io), François Dufour (CMO, Augment / Twilio), Karim Atiyeh (Ramp), Gil Lara (Sprout Social), Robert Paige & Laura Jones (Instacart). Clients include HubSpot, Instacart, ServiceNow, Twilio, InVision.
- **Growth Signals**: 80% headcount growth year-over-year (now 33 employees); clients report 35x increase in video output; 28x more videos produced using Capsule; raised $12M Series A in May 2025.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Motion Design System**: Converts After Effects files into brand-governed templates – a proprietary approach that ensures consistency without requiring design skills.
- **Enterprise-Grade Support**: Every new customer gets a dedicated success manager for onboarding and continuous coaching, reducing the learning curve.
- **Brand Compliance Built-In**: AI and automation enforce brand guidelines automatically, eliminating the chaos of self-serve video tools.
- **Cost & Speed Impact**: Reduces video production time from weeks to hours and cuts production costs by up to 90%, freeing ~30% of creative team capacity.

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerating product development in real-time collaboration, AI-assisted workflows, and core design system management.
- Expanding the team across sales, marketing, product, and engineering to meet enterprise demand.
- Scaling the platform to handle more use cases across departments (sales, customer success, internal comms).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "Building the future of video and communications tools" – emphasis on empowering non-creative teams and giving creative teams more time for high-impact work.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid – employees work from physical offices (Miami, New York, Los Angeles) with flexibility; remote program available.
- **Perks**: Health insurance, dental, vision; 401(K) with matching; Flexible Spending Account (FSA); generous PTO; paid holidays; paid volunteer time; generous parental leave.
- **Engineering Culture**: Roles include AI Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Lead Product Designer; small, tight-knit team of ~33 with a 28% technical department.

## Sources
1. [capsule.video](http://capsule.video/)
2. [LinkedIn - Capsule](https://www.linkedin.com/company/capsule-video)
3. [CB Insights - Capsule](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/capsulevideo)
4. [Built In - Capsule (capsule.video)](https://builtin.com/company/capsule-capsulevideo)

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