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Full-Stack Engineer

🗺️ Full-Remote (with hybrid option in Los Angeles and Toronto)

💪 Join Butter as one of the first members of our core engineering team. You’ll help build the next generation of creative software at the frontier of graphics, real-time rendering, and AI. 🔥 Butter already powers thousands of businesses, and you’ll play a key role in shaping our next phase of growth.

About Us

Hi, we’re Butter 👋 the Lego set for modern video and motion graphics.

We started with a simple question: Why does making videos still feel so painful? Most tools are either too complex or too limiting. And while AI makes some things faster, it also takes something away — control, originality, humanity.

Butter takes a different approach. It makes video creation fast, playful, and modular, like building with Legos. You can edit, remix, and evolve your work endlessly instead of being stuck with rigid templates or one-off AI outputs.

Today, Butter powers video creation for thousands of brands including Crocs, Netflix, and Pinterest, and artists like Blackpink and Future.

We’re a small team of builders, creatives, and engineers obsessed with craft and focused on shaping the next generation of tools to unlock more human creativity.

Why Work Here

💪 Small, Profitable, and Freshly Funded

The most enduring products—Canva, Figma, Notion—took years to get right. We’ve taken the same path: stayed lean, grew through a passionate community, and tackled the hard technical problems others skipped.

Now we’ve raised $8M from top-tier investors with the capital and conviction to swing big. You’ll join as one of our first engineers, with real ownership and a direct hand in shaping the product and culture from the ground up.

❤️ Customer Love

Butter powers over 17,000+ brands, creators, and agencies and we've grown purely through word of mouth. People don’t just try Butter – they use it daily and tell people about it. You'll be joining as we enter our next stage of growth.

💨 A Team That Ships

We care deeply about the product experience and release weekly. We bring decades of experience building at Figma, Headspace, Meta, and Cruise. Now we’re focused on one thing: redefining what creative software can be.

🙌 World-Class Mentors

We’re backed by founders and leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Shopify, Notion, Airtable, and The Browser Company. They’ve built the products we admire most and now they’re helping us build ours.

About the Role

As a Full Stack Software Engineer you’ll help build the systems and tools that power Butter’s core creative experience, including our real-time editor and motion engine, as well as AI-assisted design workflows that help users create faster without losing control or taste.

As part of our founding team, you’ll explore new ways of creating that combine precision and play, structure and freedom. You’ll ship quickly and see your work used by thousands of creators around the world.

What You'll Do

• Shape the Product: As an early team member, help define our architecture, user experience, and technical trade-offs. Your input directly shapes how Butter feels and performs.

• Build What Matters: Ship core features that make Butter feel magical — from powerful video editing tools to collaboration features that drive growth and make creating faster and more accessible.

• Work as One Team: Collaborate closely with Design, Product, and Growth Teams to create an experience that feels polished and magical for our users. • Solve Complex Problem: Take concepts from idea to launch to iteration — and see your work used by thousands of creators.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building modern web applications • Proficient in Typescript, React, Apollo, GraphQL, Postgres, NextJs or equivalent full stack framework • Excellent web debugging and optimization skills • Experience in writing unit and integration test

Nice to Haves

• Comfort working with creative technologies like WebGL, Canvas, or motion libraries. • Built or contributed to open-source projects, or creative tools • Familiarity with video, animation, or generative design systems

Want to Apply?

Butter is a well-funded, ambitious team rethinking what creative tools can be. We’re remote-first and distributed, with optional offices in Los Angeles and Toronto. If this sounds like your kind of challenge, we’d love to hear from you.