Aardvark swift is currently supporting Procreate in their search for a Senior Software Engineer.
Procreate is a global brand with millions of users; awarded 2 Apple Design Awards (2013 & 2022) and Procreate Pocket best app of the year in 2018 (iphone), their Employee headcount doubled from 30+ to 60+ in 2 years (2020-2022).
The company works with a huge range of business types beyond gaming, used in film (Disney, Marvel and Pixar), comics, commercial (Nike, NASA), tattoo artists, 3D artists etc. They have the freedom and independence to focus on R&D and quality, as they're not reacting to external pressures
In this role, you would be joining a small engineering team (10, including CTO, CPO and CRO) on the ground level. You will need...
Experience working with C and Metal
A background with low-level development, cache management, memory management, performance, performant, linear algebra, audio engineering, mathematics
Experience with software architecture and abstraction, multithreading, custom engine development, greenfield, pushing technical boundaries
Startup or scaleup experience relevant to your environment
To be comfortable operating within a level of scrappiness having direct impact on the product.
Ability to operate with a high level of autonomy and are intrinsically driven
Ideally, you don't follow any particular engineering or design methodology (e.g. agile, scrum, TDD, BDD etc), as you like to develop your own internal tools and borrow from engineering best practices rather than follow frameworks for the sake of it. You'll also have built things programmatically and are inclined towards custom solutions rather than using established libraries and off the shelf tools
Just some of the benefits of working with Procreate include...
Greenfield development and shaping/directly contributing to the product roadmap
An incredible opportunity for career growth
Very reasonable working hours
Work life balance
Fantastic salaries, Visa sponsorships (permanent residency for those who qualify) + financial support for relocation
Interested? Want to know more? Get in touch with paul.w@aswift.com now or call +44 (0)1709 834 777
