Senior Graphics Engineer (WebGL/WebGPU)

Location: Hybrid in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Company

hirify.global provides a platform that helps marketing and creative teams scale creative production, automate assets with templates and AI, and activate campaigns more efficiently.

What you will do

• Design and develop the browser-based rendering engine for video, image, and banner creative.
• Build Canvas 2D, WebGL, and WebGPU compositing for layouts, transitions, color grading, and visual effects.
• Develop frame-accurate playback using WebCodecs while maintaining audio/video synchronization.
• Design multithreaded rendering with Web Workers, OffscreenCanvas, and transferable buffers.
• Optimize memory and performance through texture pooling, allocation-free hot loops, and profiling.
• Lead architecture decisions, review code, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience delivering graphics, systems, or frontend software in production.
• Experience with web graphics programming, including SVG and Canvas.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript performance-engineering skills, including workers, OffscreenCanvas, and memory profiling.
• Understanding of video fundamentals, including frames, color, decoding, encoding, and audio/video synchronization.
• Experience defining rendering architecture, performance budgets, and memory and threading models.
• Ownership mindset, strong code-review skills, and experience mentoring engineers.

Nice to have

• WebGL, WebGPU, GLSL, or WGSL shader experience.
• Hands-on WebCodecs experience and work on an NLE, creative tool, or media application.
• Color management knowledge, including color spaces, gamma, Rec.709, and sRGB.
• Rust or C/C++ compiled to WASM for CPU-bound kernels.
• Vue.js 3, CI/CD, cloud deployments, or experience with shared platform components and design systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Values centered on ownership, impact, and ambition.
• Commitment to diversity, equal treatment, and representation of under-represented groups.
• Employee community groups supporting inclusion, wellbeing, working parents and carers, neurodiversity, and women in technology.
• Collaborative environment focused on looking after colleagues and the planet.

Hiring process

• Submit an application for review.
• A member of the hiring team will follow up with next steps.