About the role
Unit is looking for an experienced Staff Full Stack / Backend Software Engineer to build an AI-agentic video platform. This role is ideal for a product-minded technical leader who can own complex systems end-to-end, move quickly from prototype to production, and work directly with customers to turn real workflows into high-quality product experiences.
What will you be doing?
- Design and build core systems for an AI-agentic video platform, including product experiences, APIs, data models, workflow orchestration, and scalable infrastructure.
- Build agent workflows that understand customer context, generate and revise media, and move customers from idea to publishable marketing content.
- Own product quality across latency, reliability, usability, visual craft, and long-term maintainability.
- Work directly with customers and creatives to identify product gaps and rapidly iterate.
- Partner closely with founders, researchers, go-to-market partners to turn generative models into production-ready workflows.
- Lead technical decisions in ambiguous areas, set engineering standards, and raise the quality bar for the team.
- Make pragmatic product and technical tradeoffs in a fast-moving startup environment.
