C++ Developer / Tech Lead (Image Processing)

Skylum empowers millions of photographers to create incredible images. Our award-winning photo editing software combines AI-powered automation with full creative control. We make editing enjoyable, easy, and accessible for everyone. You’ll join an environment where growth, learning, and creativity are encouraged. Flexible schedules, trust-based workflows, and a supportive team give you everything you need to focus on your best work.
Proudly Ukrainian, Skylum stands with Ukraine through action, regularly supporting organizations that help accelerate our victory.
You will design and implement high-performance image processing algorithms that power intelligent photo-editing features. You will contribute to and evolve a cross-platform C++ core library used across desktop, mobile, and web platforms, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability. Depending on your level, you may also lead technical initiatives and drive architectural decisions within a small feature team.

Requirements:

5+ years of professional C++ development experience (C++17/C++20)
Strong understanding of modern C++ paradigms (RAII, move semantics, STL, templates)
Solid knowledge of multithreading, memory management, and performance optimization
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Ability to decompose complex tasks, define milestones, and estimate development effort
Effective communication and teamwork skills
Strong architectural thinking and ability to design scalable, maintainable cross-platform solutions
Ability to define technical direction and drive implementation from design to delivery
Product mindset: ability to not only build things right, but build the right things — making thoughtful trade-offs between quality, performance, and product impact

Nice to have:

Proven ability to lead technical initiatives or features involving 2–3 engineers
Experience with graphics APIs (Vulkan, Metal)
Experience with GPU acceleration or compute shaders
Familiarity with ML inference frameworks (OpenVINO, DirectML, CoreML, ONNX Runtime)
Background in computer vision, image or video processing
Experience working in performance-constrained or embedded environments
Experience with cross-platform build systems (CMake)

Responsibilities:

You will design and implement high-performance image processing algorithms that power intelligent photo-editing features.
You will contribute to and evolve a cross-platform C++ core library used across desktop, mobile, and web platforms, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.
Depending on your level, you may also lead technical initiatives and drive architectural decisions within a small feature team.

What we offer
For personal growth:

A chance to work with a strong team and a unique opportunity to make substantial contributions to our award-winning photo editing tools;
An educational allowance to ensure that your skills stay sharp;
English, German and Polish classes to strengthen your capabilities and widen your knowledge.

For comfort:

A great environment where you’ll work with true professionals and amazing colleagues whom you’ll call friends quickly;
The choice of working remotely or in our office space located on Podil, equipped with everything you might need for productive and comfortable work.

For health:

Medical insurance;
Twenty-one days of paid sick leave per year;

For leisure:

Twenty-one days of paid vacation per year;
Fun times at our frequent team-building activities.

What to expect when you apply

An interview with our Talent Acquisition Manager
Optional test task to show your skills 
Professional/technical interview
Management interview
And finally, your job offer!