Web Graphics & Tools Engineer, Snap
4+ days a week in office
Social media & camera company
Open for applications
Social media & camera company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
4+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in full stack development with modern front-end technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, alongside robust back-end systems
- Understanding of RESTful API design, real-time collaboration frameworks, and cloud-based architectures
- Expertise in real-time graphics and immersive technologies, including WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR, and glTF, to create interactive and visually engaging experiences
- Familiarity with managing open source projects on GitHub, adhering to best practices in version control and community collaboration
- Solid experience with continuous integration, automated testing, and code quality assurance to maintain high development standards
- Strong problem-solving skills with a proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across the full stack
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and engage with diverse developer communities
- A passion for learning new technologies and contributing to community-driven projects, ensuring continuous innovation and improvement
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 3+ years of experience in full stack development, with a strong foundation in both front-end and back-end technologies
- Optional: Relevant certifications or training in modern web development frameworks, cloud-based architectures, or graphics programming
- Experience with 3D Gaussian Splatting workflows and techniques
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR, and glTF
- Experience with real-time rendering, graphics pipelines and shader writing
- Proven track record in managing open source projects on GitHub and engaging with developer communities
- Demonstrated expertise in building and optimizing real-time applications and cloud-based workflows
What the job involves
- Snap’s PlayCanvas team provides the world’s web community with an open source graphics creation platform
- It powers a broad range of interactive web content, including games, e-commerce applications, ads, branded experiences, AR/VR and more
- PlayCanvas is also responsible for the leading 3D Gaussian Splatting platform SuperSplat, making it easy to publish digitized reality to the web
- We’re looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join the PlayCanvas Team at Snap Inc!
- Collaborate with fellow engineers to design and ship new features for both PlayCanvas and SuperSplat
- Develop and maintain our existing suite of full stack applications
- Write clean, efficient code across both front-end (JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS) and back-end technologies
- Integrate third-party services and APIs to enhance platform functionality
- Apply real-time graphics expertise to enhance the PlayCanvas and SuperSplat platforms
- Manage and contribute to open source repositories on GitHub
- Engage with our community across forums, Discord, GitHub, and other channels to gather feedback and support users
- Conduct code reviews, testing, and continuous integration to maintain high-quality standards
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the full stack to ensure a reliable, high-performing platform
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Snap is the social media giant that owns Snapchat, a social media mobile app released in 2011. Created to serve as a more emotive communication form than texting, the app has gained mass popularity, reaching upwards of 400 million daily users worldwide.
After rejecting a billion dollar acquisition from Meta (then Facebook) in 2013, Snap has found itself in competition with the social media giant, particularly with Instagram. Despite this, the company has marked a place for itself in the ever competitive social media space through developing features like a Discover tab, augmented reality lenses, in-app games, ads and monetisation options, as well as launching its paid service, Snapchat+.
Snap has so far not earned an annual profit since going public in 2017, but as Snapchat's user base has continually increased it has nearly closed the gap. Like other tech companies it suffered in late 2022 due to a surprise drop in advertising revenue, but has been rebuilding to its former trajectory since then. Given Snapchat's lasting popularity amongst young people, further success appears likely.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2016
$1.8bn
SERIES F
Mar 2015
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company benefits
- Paid maternity, paternity and family caregiver leave
- Adoption, surrogacy, infertility and fertility preservation benefits
- Backup child care coverage, caregiver assistance and digital maternity care support
- Short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance and AD&D insurance
- Comprehensive medical coverage, including PPO, HSA and HMO options
- Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits
- Vision coverage, including LASIK benefits
- Gym perks and discounts
- Team fitness classes, hikes and races
- Sports leagues
- Cooking and nutritional workshops
- Generous time off and leave programmes
- Meditation and yoga classes
- Emotional and mental health support programmes and apps
- Social gatherings, team outings and volunteering programmes
- Speaker series, classes and subscriptions to educational programmes
- Snap Inc. provides a 401(k) plan that allows you to save on a pre-tax, Roth and after-tax basis for your retirement (yes, we even have the Mega Backdoor option!)
- Rocket Lawyer memberships
- Financial education programmes
- Compensation packages that let you share in Snap's long-term success!
- Have a teammate going through a tough time? Lend them a hand through our internal Snap-a-wish programme! We'll work hard to make sure they get the support they need.
Company HQ
Sunset Park, Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Evan Spiegel
(CEO)Graduated from Standford with a BS in Product Design.
Bobby Murphy
(CTO)Studied Mathematical and Computational Science at Stanford.
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