Senior SW Developer- Mobile

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. Visit our tech blog at https://medium.com/@lightricks-tech-blog to learn about our team's efforts and continued leadership in the industry.

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.

As a developer in our group working on company’s top-performing app, Facetune, you will have a direct impact on millions of monthly users around the world.

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.
• Eventually also mentor junior developers.

Your skills and experience

• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, including core concepts in algorithms, data structures, computational complexity and OS along with a solid understanding of software engineering principles.
• 3+ years of experience of demonstrated expertise in OOP, software design and API/systems architecture, including multithreaded and asynchronous systems.
• Ability to work cohesively in a team setting, with strong communication skills, and professionally advocate for decisions.
• A continuous learner, keen on staying updated with the evolving software development landscape and best practices.
• Advantages:
• Knowledge in image processing, graphics, and/or computer vision.
• Experience in testing methodologies including unit testing and integration testing.
• Experience in languages like C++, Swift/Objective C or Kotlin/Java and their eco-systems.