Staff Software Engineer
Posted 2 hours 45 minutes ago by Harnham Ltd
£80,000 - £100,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
I.T. & Communications Jobs
Tyne And Wear, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, NE125
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer Remote (UK based) £10,000-£13,000 + benefits
This is a rare opportunity to join a high impact engineering team building the core graphics and collaboration engine behind a widely used digital workspace platform. If you're excited by complex visual systems, large scale real time collaboration, and deep engineering ownership, this role sits at the very heart of the product. The Company They are a global SaaS organisation powering visual collaboration for distributed teams. Their product enables organisations to brainstorm, plan, design, and workshop ideas through a shared online canvas built for high performance and enterprise grade reliability. With millions of users worldwide, they continue to evolve their platform with new capabilities, including next generation graphics, real time systems, and AI enhanced workflows. The Role As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a senior technical leader within the platform team responsible for the core canvas and rendering engine that underpins the entire product. This is a hands on role focused on advanced graphics engineering, distributed systems, and collaborative editing. You will:
This is a rare opportunity to join a high impact engineering team building the core graphics and collaboration engine behind a widely used digital workspace platform. If you're excited by complex visual systems, large scale real time collaboration, and deep engineering ownership, this role sits at the very heart of the product. The Company They are a global SaaS organisation powering visual collaboration for distributed teams. Their product enables organisations to brainstorm, plan, design, and workshop ideas through a shared online canvas built for high performance and enterprise grade reliability. With millions of users worldwide, they continue to evolve their platform with new capabilities, including next generation graphics, real time systems, and AI enhanced workflows. The Role As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a senior technical leader within the platform team responsible for the core canvas and rendering engine that underpins the entire product. This is a hands on role focused on advanced graphics engineering, distributed systems, and collaborative editing. You will:
- Lead research, design, and proof of concept work for new graphics capabilities.
- Own architecture and technical direction across the canvas/editor platform.
- Design and implement rendering, interaction, and visual systems for large scale 2D environments.
- Build features that support real time multi user collaboration, messaging, and sync.
- Drive engineering quality through testing frameworks, documentation, and best practices.
- Work closely with product, design, and engineering stakeholders to shape the future of the editor.
- Contribute to a deeply technical platform used by millions of users worldwide.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience.
- 5+ years working in computer graphics, rendering, visual editing, or graphics intensive systems.
- 3+ years building distributed or real time collaboration systems (e.g., Google Docs, multiplayer games, live shared editors).
- Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript (or transferable languages such as C++ or Rust).
- Strong understanding of 2D graphics, rendering pipelines, interaction systems, and UI frameworks.
- Experience owning the full lifecycle of graphics or visual platform projects.
- A track record of technical leadership and driving platform level decisions.
- Background in gaming, visual editors, or large scale interactive applications.
- Personal graphics projects or research demonstrating a passion for the domain.
- Experience with real time systems architecture, protocol design, or custom rendering engines.