We’re looking for a senior Swift engineer to join our team in Hobart, Australia. You’ll join our product team and build and maintain next generation Procreate products and features. Your experience in Swift and technical architecture will amplify our team’s impact on the creative industry.
What you'll do
- Work closely with designers to turn prototypes into shippable product
- Deliver major features to millions of artists
- Provide technical leadership through mentoring, library development and code review
- Solve complex and unique technical problems
Required Skills
- A deep understanding of Swift and its type system (Rust experience also counts)
- Understanding of multi-threaded concurrency and parallelism approaches
- Experience making technical decisions for a team and seeing them through
- Experience debugging, profiling and resolving performance problems
- A strong track record of developing libraries used by teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Bonus Skills
- Experience with diverse languages that have alternate paradigms to Swift, such as C, Haskell and rust
- Experience with UIKit
- Competence in linear algebra, being comfortable with matrices and vectors
- Being well versed in testing approaches, such as property testing
What to expect in your first 12 months
- Complete the Procreate onboarding process
- Take ownership of your first initiatives
- Provide support to our existing products
- Build an understanding of our product development practices
- Prepare and support the execution of core product features
- Ship product
We want to hear from you
Our recruitment process is made to provide you with opportunities for you to show us what you're capable of, instead of assessing you solely on your CV.
We’d love to hear about how you see yourself contributing to Procreate in this role.
Please note, we do not operate remote or hybrid models. We're looking for full-time and on-site employees for our Hobart office.
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What We Do
We're dedicated to making exceptional creative tools for creative people — like you — by combining beautiful user experiences with high-performance engineering. Our illustration and animation apps consistently rank in the top-selling apps on the Apple App Store, garnering millions of passionate followers who appreciate intuitive and accessible tools. And we keep working to make them better through constant updates.
In other words: We care about artists. We embrace the unknown. We’re playful with our work. We never stop at “good enough”.
Procreate is the name of our company, but it's also the name of our successful digital art and illustration app for iPad. First released in 2011, Procreate has received two coveted Apple Design Awards and has been the number one best-selling paid iPad app on Apple's App Store for the past six years.
Learn more at procreate.com/procreate
Procreate Dreams, our animation and motion graphics app, was released in late 2023 to critical acclaim and instantly became one of the top paid apps on iPad.
Learn more at procreate.com/dreams
We also develop Procreate Pocket, named iPhone App of the Year in 2018, which regularly rates as the best-selling paid iPhone app worldwide.
Learn more at procreate.com/pocket
We're based in Hobart on the beautiful Australian island state of Tasmania. We're growing and hiring talented individuals who want to make their mark.
Learn more at procreate.com/careers
This is just the beginning. We have big ambitions to create powerful and approachable products for more creative industries.
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