Hybrid Senior C++ Developer

at Skylum

• Job title: Senior C++ Developer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: C++
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Kyiv, Ukraine

About the role

• Senior C++ Developer designing and implementing high-performance image processing algorithms. Contributing to a cross-platform C++ core library used for photo-editing across multiple platforms.

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.

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)

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Twenty-one days of paid sick leave per year
• Healthy fruit snacks full of vitamins to keep you energized.
• Twenty-one days of paid vacation per year
• Fun times at our frequent team-building activities.
• An educational allowance to ensure that your skills stay sharp.
• English and German classes to strengthen your capabilities and widen your knowledge.
• 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.
• A chance to work with a strong team and a unique opportunity to make substantial contributions to our award-winning photo editing tools.