Staff Software Engineer: Rendering Engine Lead

Staff Software Engineer: Rendering Engine Lead Application Deadline: 1 December 2025 Department: Development Employment Type: Full Time Location: Detroit [Remote] Reporting To: CTO Compensation: $130,000 - $210,000 / year

Description We're looking for someone who wants to own one of the most important parts of Waymark: the rendering engine.

Waymark has created an end-to-end toolchain for video templates. Our Waymark Studio software allows motion graphics artists to create video templates within Adobe After Effects and publish them to our site. Every step of the process is driven by our WebGL-powered video renderer; it allows Waymark to instantly apply edits to videos and show them to customers using our best-in-class editor on waymark.com. Finally, we render them quickly and accurately into a wide range of video formats for distribution.

We’re looking for a teammate who’s an expert with WebGL to come help us bring After Effects-level effects to life in a web browser while also eking out every millisecond of performance.

Key Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

Expanding our rendering engine’s feature set, especially with an eye toward After Effects parity Improving our rendering engine’s performance Serving as a primary stakeholder and leader in the evolution of our video templating APIs and techniques

Our technology stack:

Client-side technologies: Typescript/JavaScript, PixiJS, WebGL, React Server-side technologies: Node.js, Golang, AWS (serverless such as, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc.)

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Requirements for this role include:

10+ years development experience Expert knowledge and experience with WebGL PixiJS experience a huge plus Lottie/Bodymovin experience a huge plus Eager to serve in a senior role on a development team Strength in animation and/or animation tooling