Senior C++ Engineer
Location: Remote in the UK
What is VEED.IO?
At VEED, our mission is to make video creation accessible to anyone. No hard-to-use equipment, painful learning curve, or keeping track of multiple subscriptions to take your ideas from record → share. With VEED, you can do this with a single tool.
In just a few years, we’ve gone from one user to millions. From no revenue to $30M+ ARR. From bootstrapped to backed by Sequoia, one of the biggest VC firms in the world. From a team of two to a team of 180+. And we’re seeking more talented, motivated and entrepreneurial individuals to join our growing team.
About the team
The Renderer team is responsible for developing and maintaining the rendering and video/audio components in the video editor. This includes native applications running in the cloud, as well as frontend rendering components, which handle the composition of elements using graphics technologies. The team strives to write performant, readable and maintainable code, enjoys learning new technologies and work on cutting-edge software. We are currently working with C++ 20 but plan to transition to C++ 23.
We are looking for an experienced modern C++ software developer to join us. We're open to exploring new technologies and ideas and we look for people that will help us push our technology.
What you will do
- You will work with a small friendly team of senior engineers, an engineering manager and a product manager.
- You will develop features by writing maintainable code that is thoroughly tested, keeping deployment and scalability in mind.
- You will be involved in triaging, investigating, and fixing issues in the features owned by your team
- You will work extensively on graphics-related tasks, including building new features, extending existing functionality, and improving areas like text rendering, animations, and transitions.
About you
- 5+ years of experience building complex modern C++ applications.
- Strong experience working with computer graphics. Experience with any APIs like OpenGL/Vulkan/Metal/DirectX is important.
- Experience with shaders.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills - listening as well as informing.
Nice to have
- Experience in emscripten WebAssembly. We use it for frontend integration.
- Experience with text rendering and animation systems.
- Experience in video/audio. We use ffmpeg to handle our media.
- Experience in TypeScript, Playwright. We use it for frontend integration and testing.
- Experience in a cloud-based environment. We use GCP, Linux VMs, docker containers, Nvidia GPUs.
- Experience with Nvidia CUDA.
- Understanding of different testing methodologies (unit, integration & e2e). We use GoogleTest and some Python.
We think what matters is people. After all, a company is just a group of people. We don’t care about where you’re from, what school you went to or where you worked before. If you’ve done exceptional work, we want to hear from you. Join us on our mission to make creative storytelling with video simple and accessible for everyone.
Country Hiring Guidelines: At VEED we are remote-first, enabling teams and individuals to design their day and integrate work and life. We are currently hiring in 2 core hubs: the UK and the Netherlands and 2 additional hubs for sales and support roles only (USA for sales and the Philippines for support). Some roles may require a specific location. Please refer to the individual job posts for more details.
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