Staff Software Engineer, Photo Editor
Location
España | Spain
Job description
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced and dynamic tech company. Picsart is the world's #1 creative platform and social editing app with a huge 150+ million monthly active users and an install base of more than 1 billion.
Picsart is on a mission to empower the creator in all of us through the best AI-assisted creativity platform. With 150+ million monthly active users, we are already the world's leading platform for content creation but we’re just getting started. Our app generates more than 1 million AI images daily, and we have more than 1 billion app downloads on iOS, Android, Web, and Windows combined.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Photo Editor group, focusing on enhancing the scalability, flexibility, and efficiency of our technology solutions.The Photo Editor group plays a crucial role in making Picsart a leading state-of-the-art AI and all-in-one creative platform for creative tools, enabling influencers and marketers to create impressive social media posts, digital ads, flyers, cards, and more.
As a key contributor, you'll shape Picsart's future by boosting engineering speed and user experience. You'll explore new technologies, master architectures, mentor the team, and support business objectives.
By joining us, you will benefit from
- An honest, open culture that emphasises feedback and promotes professional and personal development
- Hybrid Work Model— our team is distributed worldwide, from Armenia to US, UK, Germany, Spain, and Romania
- Wellbeing benefits (including a monthly wellbeing fund)
- An environment that fosters innovation and creativity, a culture with the ability to pilot new trends
You Will
- Work closely with stakeholders, PMs, and Researchers to define business OKRs, and deliver new features
- Be responsible for all major technical decisions within the groups
- Develop new user-facing features and ensuring the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
- Own the technical roadmap tasks for the initiative and working closely with web, mobile, backend, and other teams
- Own the initiative end-to-end, demonstrating strong development testing
- Constantly update your stakeholders about the progress and sharing ideas with the product team proactively
- Create top-notch code that is scalable, reliable, and reusable while following engineering best practices
- Draft technical documents if necessary and identifying any potential risks ahead of time to ensure the smooth functioning of the system
- Write unit/integration tests to ensure the high quality of the application
- Analyse the product design complexity, planning workload, and communicating risks
- Make a substantial impact on the evolution of our architecture to meet future requirements and help establish its SLAs
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including development, code reviews, testing, and production deployment
- Be responsible for task breakdown and estimations
- Own the WEB tasks in the grooming sessions
- Do professional cross-team communication and follow-up
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers within your team and others
- Help your team improve the technical quality of their work through regular technical design and code reviews
About You
- Proficiency with JSS, SASS, PostCSS, and JSX
- Experience with Responsive/Adaptive Web Design and Single Page Applications, as well as PageSpeed, Lighthouse, and Chrome Performance tools
- Knowledge of JS and CSS performance optimisations is advantageous, as is experienced with Redux and RESTful web services
- Familiarity with build tools like Webpack is a plus
- Self-motivated and able to work both independently and as part of a global team
- Ability to influence technical decisions across a large number of engineers
- Combining business ownership, entrepreneurship, and top-notch technical skills
- Ability to understand immediate domain problems and generalise someone else’s problem at a glance
- Must be a role model, with little patience for those who just sprinkle goodness around but don’t help carry the weight
- Hands-on and responsible for delivering tangible artefacts, participating in sprint planning, code review, demo, and coding.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English are required
What we seek and value most in our candidates
- If you like to create things with a user mindset, take ownership and have a natural bias for impact while having fun, you’re our person!
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.
- Picsart, Inc. is an E-Verify Employer in the US. Please click here for the E-Verify Poster in English or Spanish . For information regarding your Right To Work, please click here for English or Spanish .
Picsart is the world's largest digital creation platform. Every month, the Picsart community creates, remixes, and shares billions of visual stories using the company's powerful photo and video editing and generative AI tools. Picsart has amassed one of the largest open-source content collections in the world, including free-to-edit photos, stickers, backgrounds, templates, and more. Used by consumers, marketers, content creators and businesses , the app is available in 30 languages for free and as a subscription on iOS, Android, Windows devices and on the Web. Headquartered in Miami, with offices around the world, Picsart is backed by SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, DCM Ventures, Insight Partners, and others. Download the app or visit picsart.com for more information.
We work on providing the best global benefits and support to our employees
Picsart offers competitive and equitable pay for every job and every market in which we operate.
Flexibility and time off
In addition to a generous PTO policy, Picsart also provides time off for maternity, paternity, sick leave, and mental health days.
We want our employees to share in the rewards of Picsart's success, so we recognize both team and individual performance.
Professional & personal growth
Picsart provides growth opportunities including: Training, online education and certification programs, coaching opportunities, and mentorships.
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