Senior Software Engineer - Swift at Procreate (Hobart)
Procreate· Hobart·
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Job description
We’re looking for a senior Swift engineer to join our team in Hobart, Australia. You’ll join our product team and build and maintain next generation Procreate products and features. Your experience in Swift and technical architecture will amplify our team’s impact on the creative industry.
What you'll do
- Work closely with designers to turn prototypes into shippable product
- Deliver major features to millions of artists
- Provide technical leadership through mentoring, library development and code review
- Solve complex and unique technical problems
Required Skills
- A deep understanding of Swift and its type system (Rust experience also counts)
- Understanding of multi-threaded concurrency and parallelism approaches
- Experience making technical decisions for a team and seeing them through
- Experience debugging, profiling and resolving performance problems
- A strong track record of developing libraries used by teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Bonus Skills
- Experience with diverse languages that have alternate paradigms to Swift, such as C, Haskell and rust
- Experience with UIKit
- Competence in linear algebra, being comfortable with matrices and vectors
- Being well versed in testing approaches, such as property testing
What to expect in your first 12 months
- Complete the Procreate onboarding process
- Take ownership of your first initiatives
- Provide support to our existing products
- Build an understanding of our product development practices
- Prepare and support the execution of core product features
- Ship product
We want to hear from you
Our recruitment process is made to provide you with opportunities for you to show us what you're capable of, instead of assessing you solely on your CV.
We’d love to hear about how you see yourself contributing to Procreate in this role.
Please note, we do not operate remote or hybrid models. We're looking for full-time and on-site employees for our Hobart office.
Why work at Procreate
- Culture: Artist-driven, supportive, and autonomy-focused. “We see ourselves as artists and support each other in our craft.”
- Work model: Most roles are on-site in Hobart or Sydney, but the company has employees in 35 countries (some remote/distributed). Relocation support is offered for candidates moving to Australia.
- Perks: Relocation assistance (flights, lump-sum allowance, short-term accommodation), private health insurance for employee and family.
- Engineering environment: Work on products used by millions, with a focus on Swift, Metal, and custom GPU technologies. Small teams, close collaboration with technical leadership.
- Recruitment process: Three conversational rounds (Talent Acquisition, Team Lead, Executive). No coding tests mentioned; emphasis on culture fit and motivation.