Product Engineer
Flora ©
Product
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Posted 6+ months ago
Overview
FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building the world’s most powerful creative tools. FLORA combines all of the best creative AI models in one Figma-like infinite canvas. Models can be linked together for moodboarding, concepting, or to create and automate entire creative workflows.
We’re proudly backed by a16z Games, Long Journey Ventures (SpaceX, Niantic), Menlo Ventures (Uber, Anthropic), Comma Capital, Matthew Hartman (Huggingface), Coho Deeptech, Embedding VC, Vipul Prakash (CEO of Together AI), Andrew Tan (Builder's Capital) and angels from Facebook AI Research Lab, Midjourney, Notion, Stability and more.
We’re building out our founding team and looking to bring on a full-stack product engineer. As part of the founding team, you will work closely with the Founders (Weber and Alex) and our Founding Designer (Ethan) to build FLORA, thinking from first principles how we should interact with creative tools in a generative age.
Requirements
Comfortable with all parts of the stack — you have no trouble context-switching from editing CSS to tuning database queries.
Solid experience with React, JavaScript/Typescript, HTML, CSS and modern front-end build systems (Webpack, ES6, etc).
Familiar with NodeJS, Postgres and keen to optimize a production grade product
Deep experience building rich, interactive apps with great attention to detail.
Experience building, deploying, and debugging distributed systems.
Have worked with production JavaScript / Node backends.
Ideally familiar with ML-powered tools with user-friendly interfaces.
5+ years experience
About
FLORA was founded out of creative technology art projects at NYU ITP, a graduate program where we use technology to make art (the same program as Runway). We started FLORA because current AI creative tools are built by non-creatives for other non-creatives to feel creative. We are obsessed with building a power tool for creative professionals, not a toy for generating AI slop. Our mission at FLORA is to make it possible to speak your ideas into existence with a high degree of creative control. We are an applied HCI company obsessed with making cutting-edge technology intuitive for creatives, founded out of a desire to make better tools for our own art projects as creative technologists.
We’re looking for Picassos: creatively-minded individuals willing to invent new perspectives regardless of any notion of what art currently is, in favor of what art could be. Every person on our team is both highly effective and highly creative. Working at FLORA will exercise both the left and right sides of your brain.
FLORA is a team of designers, engineers, creative technologists, and musicians. We are an in-person team based in Brooklyn and we're rooted in the NYC art & technology scene. We regularly attend and host art & technology events, meetups, hackathons, and parties.