Company overview

Animaj leads the global media industry by creating and delivering premium 3D animation to families worldwide. Traditional animation, rooted in outdated processes since the early ‘90s, lags behind the fast-paced demands of today’s digital economy.

Our innovation addresses the time-intensive nature of traditional animation, where each second can take hours or a week to produce.

As the first full-stack software Engineer at Animaj, you’ll be instrumental in pioneering sophisticated AI solutions that will be implemented in our 3D animation production workflows.

You will report to the VP of Engineering and will be part of an ambitious team pushing the boundaries of the Kids’ animation industry through innovation in generative AI applications.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced full-stack developer to join our dynamic Engineering team, reporting into the VP of Engineering. This role involves collaborating closely with our R&D department and deploying AI technologies to revolutionize 3D animation content creation, production and distribution.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain the APIs and backend of Animaflow, our internal 3D animation production tools interfacing with our core AI production services (motion-transfer, rig-reintegration)

• Design, develop and maintain the data pipelines feeding our analytics platform used to detect and model trends in the kids’ media ecosystem on YouTube

• Design, develop and maintain our YouTube publishing automation application, used to scale publishing of our videos on YouTube

• Own CI/CD workflows and manage cloud resources

Our Tech Stack

• Node.js / React / Typescript

• Python/Flask

• PostGreSQL / MongoDB

• Sagemaker, Weights and Biases

• ECR/ECS

• Airflow (AWS managed)

• GitHub Actions

• AWS

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a software engineer in fast-paced and technically demanding environment

• Outstanding problem-solving skills

• Hacker mindset (test often, ship often, be pragmatic), not afraid to dig into new areas that you’re not familiar with

• Experience in data-heavy environments is a plus

• Excellent API design skills

• Sensible for application and cloud security best practices

• First call with Antoine (our VP Engineering) - 30 min

• Technical homework

• Focus interview - 1h

• Final interview with our CEO - 45 min