About Us

Shortbread is a powerful and highly controllable comics studio powered by an AI copilot. Traditionally, comics are drawn by hand by multiple artists. Shortbread’s editor speeds up the process 5-10x, and allows anyone to create comics without requiring drawing skills.

We are a team of webtoon artists, MIT and Berkeley engineers, backed by Y Combinator.

Why Join Us?

• We are an early stage fast growing startup with over 60k beta users. You will have ownership, impact, and responsibility.
• We are redefining the way that people make art. You will be exposed to / work with Stable Diffusion models and techniques (e.g. ControlNet) and other state of the art Generative AI applied research
• We are a small (<10) intimate team that values building community
• Work in-person in SF 3 days a week
• 401(k) plan
• Healthcare benefits

Requirements

1. 2+ years of experience with full stack development
   1. On the front end we use React, Typescript, and TailwindCSS
   2. On the backend: NodeJS, ExpressJS, Flask

• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript in addition to the modern frameworks listed above
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable frontend and backend code.
• Experience working with NoSQL databases (Firestore) as well as developing APIs and web services
• Experience with cloud computing services (GCP, AWS), containers (Docker), and building distributed systems at scale
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Nice to Haves

• Passionate about webtoons, comics, art, story telling, or other visual artforms
• Experience with Stable Diffusion A1111 and Generative AI technologies