Senior Software Engineer, VSCO
$180-195k
+ Equity + Discretionary bonuses based on performance
Creative platform for photographers
Be an early applicant
Creative platform for photographers
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-195k
+ Equity + Discretionary bonuses based on performance
101-200 employees
Company mission
VSCO's mission is to nurture creativity so its users can make it.
Role
Who you are
- The right candidate for this role is scrappy and hands-on and thrives in environments that are “team first”. Ideally, you are always looking for ways to improve the way product is created and built and you champion new initiatives to improve the craft of engineering
- 5+ years of experience working on mobile applications on iOS (Swift and/or Objective-C)
- Experience working with C/C++ in a mobile environment (iOS / Android)
- Experience working with AVFoundation, OpenGL, and Metal
- Experience working with photo, audio and video editing in mobile applications
- Knowledge of established and modern mobile tech stacks: SwiftUI, UIKit, Combine
- Understanding and technical application of clean architecture and modularization, to deliver testable and scalable software
- Experience owning projects end-to-end from initial prototypes to customer roll out
- Professional experience working on mobile consumer applications
- Cross functional experience collaborating closely with designers and product managers
- Experience collaborating with other engineers: iOS, Android, server, and web
What the job involves
- VSCO is looking for a Senior Software Engineer (iOS) to join our Tools & Community Team. The team’s mission is to provide the best tools for creators to edit and share their work. This is a critical role to expand the capabilities of our current application, lead and mentor other engineers in development best practices, and help architect the evolution of the VSCO application moving forward
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members in the conception, planning, and implementation of new community features
- Architect and implement best-fit solutions aligned with the company's strategy to deliver maximum value to our creators
- Build clean, testable, maintainable, and idiomatic code, and drive the team forward in relation to code quality
- Deliver solutions both in collaboration with other engineers or independently, depending on the scope and schedule of the project
Our take
VSCO, pronounced 'visco', is a photo and video editing and sharing app. Doing away with the ad revenue model of social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, it instead makes its money from subscriptions - and offers users a break from the constant pressure of follower and like counts.
Co-founded by an ex-wedding photographer with a passion for good, simple photography, as well as a former Creative Director, VSCO has found itself uniquely able to cater to what the creative community wants and needs. It of course competes with Instagram, as well as newcomers such as Tezza, but nonetheless has a strong and loyal user base, due to its creator-first philosophy, that could very well see it to further success.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2015
$30m
SERIES B
May 2014
$40m
SERIES A
Total funding: $70m
Company benefits
- A virtual first workplace with quarterly company-wide travel events to connect and play
- Equity
- Healthcare insurance, vision, dental insurance for employees and families
- Flexible vacation policy
- Creative Fridays, VSCO Create weeks (our version of hack week), and so much more
Company values
- Always Moving Forward - By pushing our work forward thoughtfully and with intention, our community gets more of what they love from VSCO
- Be You - By creating a space in which authentic views are heard and celebrated, we not only create a better workplace, but an inclusive product
- Build Together - By working together, we make better products and focus on the right things at the right time.
- Creator First - By putting the needs of creators first, we build a product they are inspired to use and a brand they can trust.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Joel Flory
(Executive Chairman)Was CEO of the company from 2011 to 2023. Prior to co-founding VSCO, they were a successful commercial and wedding photographer.
Greg Lutze
(Chief Experience Officer)An Advisor at Sene, SELF and Chroma. Before co-Founding VSCO, they worked as Creative Director for design agencies in Seattle and New York.
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