--- title: 'Fullstack Engineer at Krea' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/fullstack-engineer-krea-san-francisco-s725r01bry0f' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Fullstack Engineer at Krea - **Company:** Krea - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-19 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/krea/fcdfd930-1fa1-4496-b67e-59e3656c32d8 ## Job description ## ABOUT KREA At Krea, we are building next-generation AI creative tools. We're dedicated to making AI intuitive and controllable for creatives - our mission is to build tools that empower human creativity, not replace it. We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D. We're building better, smarter, and more controllable tools to harness this medium. We recently took this a step forward with the launch of Krea 2 https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-image-model, our first foundation model, built completely from scratch for aesthetic diversity and stylistic control. We've raised over $83M and are backed by world-class investors such as a16z, Bain Capital, and Abstract. We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco. We care about creativity: our team includes musicians, designers, visual artists, and engineers. Some examples of things you will do: - Build and maintain APIs and UI flows for web + mobile in Svelte/SvelteKit, TypeScript - Design interactive, responsive front-end experiences—drag-and-drop, real-time canvas polish, smooth and responsive UI animations - Optimize frontend performance: minimize render latency, profile UI with virtual DOM techniques, deliver seamless WebSocket image streams - Design and maintain backend services (Node), DB models (Postgres + Redis caching/pooling) - Kickstart a Public API project to serve Krea AI models to millions of developers - Diagnose HTTP/3 and WebSocket related issues both on the client side and the server side - Drive real-time image & video generation pipelines via low-latency APIs - Improve observability and alerting using OpenTelemetry tools - Implement enterprise features: Audit Logs, SAML/SSO, SCIM provisioning - Bonus: Scale our infra architecture through deep understanding of our AWS EKS GPU clusters or Kubernetes operators Strong candidates may have experience with the following: - Solid full-stack JS/TS engineer with frontend focus—component design, UI state, animations, client performance - Experience with SvelteKit or similar frameworks, real-time UI via WebSockets - Comfortable designing APIs, database schemas, caching strategies - Familiar with infra and scale: Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, observability stacks - Side projects or open‑source contributions in UI/infra are plus - Bonus: prior work on enterprise auth features, GPU workloads, ML or image/video pipelines Stack: - Frontend: Svelte/SvelteKit - Backend: Node + TypeScript, Postgres, Redis - Realtime: WebSockets, HTTP/3 - Infra: AWS EKS GPU clusters, Kubernetes - Observability: Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Axiom/HyperDX - Tools: GitHub, Slack, Notion ## WHAT WE OFFER - Team: Work alongside a world-class team building the future of AI creative tooling - Impact: Significant scope and company-wide impact - Competitive compensation: generous salary & equity packages - Health & wellness: 100% health & 99% dental/vision insurance premiums covered for employees, health FSA accounts, & long-term disability coverage - Time off: Flexible PTO policy - Financial planning: 401k with a 4% company-sponsored match - Meals in the office: breakfast, lunch, dinner - you name it, we'll cover it - Transit: Ubers covered to & from the office - Sponsorship: We're open to sponsoring international visas where we can (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3). - And more! Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees ## About Krea ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Krea builds an AI-powered creative suite for generating, editing, and enhancing images, video, and 3D assets in real time. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – $83M total funding) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: Not publicly available (blogs indicate operations began roughly 2023–2024) - **Founders**: Victor Perez, Diego Rodriguez ## Core Business - **Industries**: Creative AI, generative media, artificial intelligence - **Target customers**: B2C (individual creatives, enthusiasts) and B2B (enterprise teams at companies like Pixar, LEGO, Samsung, Shopify, Microsoft) - **Mission / purpose**: “Make AI feel intuitive and natural by giving creators full control over their process” and “multiply human creativity” ## Products & Services - **Krea AI Suite (Image Generation)**: Native 4K image generation with 1,000+ styles, 20+ models, 3-second generation speed for a 1024px Flux image. - **AI Video Generation**: Access to top models (Veo 3, Kling, Hailuo, Wan, Runway) with intuitive interface for social media clips, animations, and edits. - **AI 3D Generation**: Text-to-3D and 3D object manipulation within images. - **Real-Time Rendering**: Market‑leading real‑time image generation (<50ms) and real‑time video with frame consistency. - **Image & Video Upscaling**: Upscale images up to 22K resolution and videos up to 8K at 120fps (includes Topaz Photo/Gigapixel). - **LoRA Fine-tuning**: Train custom image or video models with a few images for style, character, or object consistency. - **Generative Editing**: Add/remove objects, merge images, change expressions or lighting using 10+ editing models. - **Enterprise Product (upcoming)**: SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 compliant, designed for enterprise teams. All offerings are SaaS, accessible via web browser. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: **$83M total funding** (Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, April 2025) - **Notable Investors / Partners**: Bain Capital Ventures (Series B lead), Andreessen Horowitz (Series A), Pebblebed (seed), Abstract Ventures (seed), plus early backers HF0, A*, Gradient Ventures. Enterprise clients include Pixar, LEGO, Samsung, Shopify, Microsoft. - **Growth Signals**: - 30+ million users across 191 countries (organic growth) - 20x revenue growth on a team of 8 originally - 50+ major product updates rolled out - Team expanded from 8 to 17 (as of April 2025); new ocean-view office in SF - Adoption by major studios and brands ## Competitive Advantages - **Model aggregation**: One subscription unlocks 64+ models (Flux, Wan2.1, Veo 2, Kling, Hailuo, etc.) – no need to maintain separate subscriptions. - **Industry‑fastest inference**: 3s for a 1024px Flux image at FP16; real‑time generation <50ms. - **Interconnected workflows**: Generate an image → upscale → convert to video → add sound – all in one tool, with editable “knobs and dials” at every step. - **Community‑driven development**: Ships new features every Thursday; product built by listening to users first, then building. - **Integrated LoRA training**: Train custom models directly in the browser without hosting weights externally. ## Strategic Focus - **Research**: Krea AI Research Lab focusing on aesthetics, controllability, and hyper‑personalization. - **Product roadmap**: Release of a new generation of aesthetic models with deeper artistic understanding and novel control modules that go beyond text prompts. - **Enterprise expansion**: Launch enterprise product with compliance certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001). - **Multimodal future**: Developing infrastructure for generating immersive, real‑time environments (like videogames). ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Small, highly talented team (currently 17) that lives and breathes creativity – founders and many team members are musicians, poets, designers, videographers; “The team behind Krea is the work of a small, talented group of imaginative, incredibly dedicated people.” - **Engineering & research**: Engineers from MIT, Princeton, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago; authors of state‑of‑the‑art models (Lumina, Anifusion). Freedom to do own research after building products for the community. - **Work environment**: New office with Pacific Ocean views in San Francisco; majority of team shares a living space (noted early‑stage). - **Velocity**: Weekly Thursday releases, exposure to cutting‑edge AI models, direct impact on a product used by millions. - **Open roles**: Listed at [jobs.ashbyhq.com/krea](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/krea). Ideal candidate is “deeply technical, artistically opinionated.” ## Sources 1. [krea.ai – Product & Pricing](https://www.krea.ai/) 2. [Bloomberg – Krea AI Inc Company Profile](https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/2562987D:US) 3. [Krea Blog – “A New Krea” (Series B announcement)](https://www.krea.ai/index/new-krea) 4. [Andreessen Horowitz – “Investing in Krea”](https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-krea/) 5. 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