About the company
Genies is culture’s leading avatar technology company empowering humans to create their own avatar experiences. To-date, Genies has been widely adopted by cultural tastemakers and has partnerships with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group as their rosters’ “official avatar.” Genies has recently launched its consumer arm via its AR Developer Kit which allows developers to create interoperable avatar experiences for mobile and hardware AR. Their first avatar experience, Silver Studio, allows users to design and exchange digital fashion. Genies has raised $250M from investors such as Silver Lake, BOND, NEA, and Bob Iger valuing the company at $1 billion.
Job Summary
What You’ll be Doing:
📍Technical Leadership: Define and own the architectural vision and implementation strategy for full-stack systems supporting Genies’ Smart Avatar ecosystem. Establish technical standards, patterns, and scalable frameworks for both frontend and backend components. 📍Mentorship & Team Development: Act as a player-coach for a growing team. Provide structured mentorship, code review guidance, and ongoing feedback to foster career growth and engineering excellence. 📍Hands-on Contribution: Contribute directly to the codebase with a focus on maintainability, reliability, and performance. Prototype, iterate, and deliver features across our stack using technologies such as React, Next.js, Node, and Go. 📍Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to translate high-level goals into technical deliverables that delight users and scale gracefully. 📍Strategic Impact: Drive initiatives that improve developer velocity, operational efficiency, and code quality across the organization. Proactively identify technical risks, scalability challenges, and long-term architectural needs. 📍Process and Culture Building: Champion best practices in code quality, security, and performance. Help shape a culture of learning, accountability, and collaboration within the engineering org.
What You Should Have:
📍7+ years of professional full stack development experience, including at least 2 years in a technical leadership or mentorship role. 📍Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience. 📍Proven ability to design and scale distributed, high-performance web applications. 📍Expertise with modern web technologies: React, JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js. 📍Strong backend development experience with Go, Python, or similar languages. 📍Experience building and consuming RESTful and GraphQL APIs, and familiarity with event-driven architectures.
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