Staff Software Engineer: Rendering Engine Lead
Waymark
Software Engineering
Detroit, MI, USA · Remote
USD 130k-210k / year
Posted on Nov 18, 2025
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.
- Application Deadline
- December 01, 2025
- Department
- Development
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Detroit [Remote]
- Workplace type
- Fully remote
- Compensation
- $130,000 - $210,000 / year
- Reporting To
- CTO
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
About Waymark
We’re on a mission to make great video accessible to everyone – by building powerful, intuitive products that make creative easy.
If that sounds good to you, we’d love for you to apply — even if you live outside the Detroit area (yes, we are remote-friendly, thanks for asking).
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
Applied
Stage 2:
Phone Interview with the Talent Team
Stage 3:
Technical Skill Assessment
Stage 4:
Interview with Development Team
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