Senior Software Engineer - (Various Roles; JS, Python, WebGL, AWS, etc.)

As an engineer at Waymark, you specialize in smoke and mirrors. We’ve built a product with the principals of instant feedback and premium quality; and when it comes to live-rendering a video template within a web app, you don’t get a lot for free.

Does this sound like an exciting challenge? Then we’d love to talk to you.

We’re looking to grow a few areas of our engineering organization:

•  Waymark.com (front end and full-stack) - The home of our best-in-class template editor.
•  Waymark Studio - Our toolchain that turns After Effects projects into Waymark Templates.
•  Video Services - The nitty gritty in handling our uploads and converting our edited templates into high quality video assets to launch on TV, social media, and wherever our customer’s choose.
•  Waymark Web Rendering Engine - Our WebGL renderer that composes motion graphics, videos, audio, and images to allow for live-edits within the Waymark template editor.

We’ll describe these areas more below. In general the requirements for this role include:

• 4+ years development experience
• Eager to serve in a senior role on a development team

Watch this video to see how our editor, studio, and rendering engine come together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m33fmcrfUrE

Applying

[Please submit an application here!](https://waymark.pinpointhq.com/jobs/10011)

Are you unsure if any of these roles are an exact fit for your skillset? We encourage you to still apply! Passion, curiosity, and experience find a way to fit into a lot of roles.

RolesWaymark.com Front End Developer

Who you are

• You’re confident architecting a JavaScript front-end. You have favorite techniques (e.g. Redux) but are open to others.
• You love bringing great user experiences to life.
• You’ve tackled countless problems with React and even relied on some ref-based hacks along the way.
• You like to bring your own touches to a user interface. If a design could benefit from an animation here or a more mobile-friendly approach there, you’re comfortable suggesting a change or implementing it and showing it off.

What you’ll do

• Help Waymark continue to simplify its front end architecture
• Grow the skills of your teammates while learning from them at the same time
• Be involved in the design and implementation of new features within the Waymark editor

Waymark.com Full Stack Developer

Who you are

• You’ve worked up and down the stack of various applications. You’re confident in various techniques between client-server communication.
• You’re confident in AWS and interfacing with “traditional” and serverless technologies like AWS Lambda.
• You have strong experience with Django and Python or are very confident in your ability to learn them.
• You’re very confident with SQL and comfortable with database administration.
• Be it GraphQL, REST API, server-side component rendering; you have experience to rely on and confidence exploring new patterns, technologies, and techniques.

What you’ll do

• Be a driving force in the evolution away from Waymark’s former monolithic architecture
• Develop internal- and external-facing APIs to interact with Waymark templates and purchases
• Continually test, measure, and optimize Waymark’s code

Waymark Studio Developer

Who you are

• The idea of a “new environment” excites you. You’re familiar with interfacing between various systems. And you’re up for the challenge of digging into not-so-well-documented APIs when needed (see: After Effects interfaces).
• Maybe you don’t have the greatest knack for designing your own UI, but you’re confident in creating user interfaces within a web app.
• You’ve spent some time with creative “pro tools” before. Be it the Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, etc. you’re familiar with the ways people use tools like this.

What you’ll do

• Programmatically interface with After Effects a lot; and you’ll continue to find ways to make that a more elegant and robust developer experience
• Build a web app to import After Effects projects and define what parts of them are dynamic
• Explore ways to make easier, faster, and more reliable for creative professionals to author Waymark Templates (e.g. combining a web app and an After Effects extension into a cross-platform app)
• Foster a workplace and codebase that is exciting to work within, celebrates creativity, and enjoys learning just as much as it does teaching

Video Services Developer

Who you are

• You probably know what FFMPEG is and you probably have some strong feelings about its CLI
• You’ve worked with video transcoding before; you know what’s slow, you know what’s fast, you’re at least familiar with various codecs and containers
• You have experience in a

What you’ll do

• Programmatically interface with After Effects a lot; and you’ll continue to find ways to make that a more elegant and robust developer experience
• Build a web app to import After Effects projects and define what parts of them are dynamic
• Explore ways to make easier, faster, and more reliable for creative professionals to author Waymark Templates (e.g. combining a web app and an After Effects extension into a cross-platform app)
• Foster a workplace and codebase that is exciting to work within, celebrates creativity, and enjoys learning just as much as it does teaching

Waymark Web Rendering Engine Developer

Who you are

• You’re well-versed in WebGL. That probably means that you’ve at least dabbled in OpenGL, Unity, or other members of the gaming/graphics ecosystem.
• You’ve probably written a sprite-based game or some generative art before.
• You may love shaders, you may love-hate shaders, but you know shaders.

What you’ll do

• You’ll be interfacing with Pixi.js and likely writing some custom shaders or optimizing Pixi.js’s existing shaders.
• After Effects is where Waymark templates start and our goal is to support as much of After Effects’ functionality as possible; so you’ll be helping prioritize and complete a list of gaps in our support.
• Waymark Templates are renderered in the browser on desktop and mobile devices; so you’ll be continually measuring and enhancing performance.
• Our creative team sometimes runs into tricky problems trying to accomplish a certain look; so you’ll probably help them troubleshoot and then determine how we can make their lives easier by enhancing our rendering engine.