Junior SW Developer- Mobile Team

Who we are

Lightricks, an AI-first company, is revolutionizing how visual content is created. With a mission to bridge the gap between imagination and creation, Lightricks is dedicated to bringing cutting-edge technology to the creative and business spaces.

Our AI photo and video generation models, which power our apps and platforms including Facetune, Photoleap, Videoleap, and LTX Studio, allow creators and brands to leverage the latest research breakthroughs, offering endless control over their creative potential. Our influencer marketing platform, Popular Pays, provides creators the ability to monetize their work and offers brands opportunities to scale their content through tailored creator partnerships.

Our brilliant R&D team, which includes leading researchers, takes our products to the next level.
Our areas of expertise include computer vision, machine learning, rendering, deep learning and computational photography. Learn about our team's efforts and our continued leadership in the industry by  visiting our tech blog at https://medium.com/@lightricks-tech-blog.

Position Overview

As a developer on our Facetune mobile app group, you'll join a dynamic environment working on one of the industry's leading photo-editing applications. This role offers mentorship, hands-on experience with diverse technologies, and the opportunity to impact millions of monthly users globally.

Within the Facetune mobile app group, our development encompasses a diverse tech stack and robust professional collaborations, presenting our developers with varied challenges. This ensures continuous opportunities for deepening expertise and dynamic personal growth. Our hands-on activities include:

• Work on app’s code, including UI development and infrastructure in native languages (Swift for iOS or Kotlin for Android), with some Python for tooling.
• Participate in software design sessions to optimally create rich user features, polished UX, and scalable architectures with complex business logic.
• Develop on-device image processing and rendering by writing GPU shaders using technologies like Metal (iOS) or OpenGL ES (Android), ensuring fast responses to user input for optimal interaction.
• Collaborate with our research team to integrate cloud-based image processing for computationally intensive algorithms, leveraging cutting-edge AI models (e.g., diffusion neural networks and LLMs), and combine these with local on-device processing to deliver an optimal user experience.
• Optimize time and memory consumption to improve app performance on mobile devices, enhancing the capability to handle high-res images and videos.

What you will be doing

• First step:
• Go through an internal bootcamp with a personal mentor to learn the basics required to start working on the app’s codebase, followed by continuous learning alongside real work.
• Ongoing: 
• Significantly contribute to the everything related to Facetune editor’s features development: work with product manager to shape the functionality and user facing design.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code; identify and implement software engineering best practices; participate in architectural decisions.
• Conduct code reviews.

Your skills and experienceRequired

• A foundational understanding of computer science concepts, especially algorithms, data structures, and operating systems.
• Knowledge of basic software engineering principles, including object-oriented programming, multithreading, and asynchronous programming.
• Strong team collaboration and communication skills, with a willingness to learn from peers and mentors.
• A continuous learner, keen on staying updated with the evolving software development landscape and best practices.

Advantage

• Interest in or basic knowledge of image processing, graphics, or computer vision.
• Familiarity with languages such as C++, Swift/Objective-C, or Kotlin/Java.
• Experience with testing practices, including unit and integration testing.

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