Software Engineer

About the role

Founded by Colin Kaepernick, Lumi is revolutionizing storytelling through the power of Generative AI. Our mission is to empower anyone to be a storyteller, fostering diversity and innovation. We're a high-performing team committed to delivering cutting-edge AI generation capabilities, enabling users to craft unique characters, create compelling stories, and more — all from the comfort of their living room. Today, we work with K12 schools where students create comics and graphic novels in the classroom. We work closely with teachers to address student engagement, literacy rates, and more.

Responsibilities

• Own features from start to finish
• Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and customer success
• Raise our technical bar, from core architecture to developer experience

What we value

• Velocity: you build at breakneck speed
• Practicality: you balance speed vs perfection
• Autonomy, but not solo: you're self-sufficient but engage the team when ideas or alignment matter
• Friendliness: you're enjoyable to discuss and debate with
• Product sense: you connect technical decisions to user and business outcomes
• Elite: you operate at a high standard and inspire others to this same level

Our tech stack

Typescript, React, Node, AWS

Compensation

$170,000 - $230,000 salary with equity and benefits

Location

Remote in the US with quarterly team trips