Capsule
Frontend Engineer
Los Angeles · Mid
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
The bottom of this range ($100,000) is below the Level I prevailing wage of $106,787. An H-1B cannot be filed below the prevailing wage, so an offer at the floor of this band could not be sponsored as posted.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $134,202 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- We're a Series A startup led by two serial founders who have built and scaled creative platforms used by hundreds of millions of people.
- We're backed by top-tier investors behind Webflow, Figma, Slack, and Replit.
Responsibilities
- Build beautiful, performant, responsive web UIs using React and Next.js
- Translate designs into high-quality code-adding the nuance that turns "good" into "great"
- Collaborate with design and product to shape new features from concept to launch
- Implement and maintain our design system and component library
- Own integrations with internal and 3rd-party APIs
- A strong sense of product and design-your work should feel as good as it looks
- Experience building production apps from scratch
- Capsule is building the world's most intuitive AI-powered video editing tool, designed for modern teams.
- In less than a year, 100+ enterprise teams-including HubSpot, ServiceNow, and Instacart-use Capsule to create high-quality, on-brand video content at scale.
- We're hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to help us build the next generation of web-based video editing.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional frontend experience (React, Next.js, or similar frameworks)
- Solid knowledge of modern frontend architectures and web video technologies
- Proficiency with Figma and collaborating closely with design
- Familiarity with CI/CD and APM tools
Compensation
- Salary between 100k-170k USD +equity
Benefits
- Salary between 100k-170k USD +equity
- Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision)
This listing is sourced directly from Capsule's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.