Senior Frontend Engineer, Rendering (London, hybrid)

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We're in an exciting growth phase following our Series B funding and are expanding our team. Our hybrid working culture includes three office days per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) at our Berlin headquarters. Looking ahead, we're also growing London as our second location, with a new office planned for 2025.

A little about us

• Redefining graphic design: Kittl is transforming how creators work with an intuitive platform that stands as a modern, competitive alternative to traditional design tools: Build the new Adobe of tomorrow.
• Rapid growth: Millions of users within just two years of launch
• Diverse team: 120+ team members representing 30+ different countries
• Truly product-led company: Engineers, Product managers and designers are at the core of Kittl - shaping an engineering driven working culture
• Strong funding: Raised over $50M from world-renowned investors who have also backed companies like Slack, Dropbox, and Figma

Learn more: www.kittl.com/career

Your role at Kittl

As part of a cross-functional team including product managers, developers, designers and a founding team, you will create and develop an amazing product that you will be proud of. The Core Editor team focuses on providing an intuitive, versatile, and powerful graphic design editor, empowering users to successfully complete design projects. As a Senior Frontend Engineer at Kittl, you have a deep understanding of the product and can recognize potential challenges users may encounter that affect their workflow. You know how to make complex things simple, and can work fast and smart at the same time.

What you'll do

• Develop editor features: Develop and enhance various features which simplify complex image composition and editing tasks
• Produce high-quality results: Craft clean, understandable code which tackles complex rendering challenges
• Optimisation: Optimize 2D rendering for super smooth performance
• Improve engineering standards: You'll improve tooling and processes

What you'll need

• Experience: Minimum 5 years of professional development experience with TypeScript & React
• Rendering knowledge: Vector graphics and SVG (scalable vector graphics) manipulation, with experience in rendering and displaying SVGs. Proficiency with shaders, WebGL, or Canvas 2D/3D is a plus

• Testing: Strong proficiency with unit, integration and E2E testing
• CI/CD: Understanding of Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery processes

Interview process

• Recruiter interview (30 min)
• Technical take home assignment
• Technical interview (60 min)
• Leadership interviews with Director of Engineering (30 min) & CTO (30 min)
• Bar raiser interview with Chief of Staff, right hand to CEO (45 min)

We are looking for someone

• Exceptionally driven to drive impact and challenge the status quo
• Who takes extreme ownership & gets things done
• Who goes above and beyond in their role

Benefits

• Maximise your impact: No matter if you're leading a team or you stand out by your domain expertise - all we care about is supporting you to maximise your own impact
• Hackathons: Our quarterly hackathons provide an environment to experiment with new concepts, push boundaries, and potentially deliver the next big thing.
• Kittl Week: Each year, our global team gathers together for a whole week, to work, celebrate, get inspired, and have fun
• Flexible working hours: Our core hours are 11am-5pm CET, leaving the rest of your schedule flexible to fit your style
• Workspace access: Premium WeWork All Access account, enabling you to work from any global WeWork location
• Remote work: Work up to 50 days (10 weeks) fully remote per year from anywhere in the world, as long as you maintain our core hours
• Vacation: Up to 30 vacation days per year

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At Kittl, we embrace diversity and value every team member's unique background, identity, and experience. We're all about respect, honesty, and inclusivity. Together, we create a safe and supportive work environment where everyone thrives. Join us on this exciting journey of making our company and product even better!