Senior Frontend Engineer (WebGL)

Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; hybrid

Company

Storyteq provides a platform that helps marketing and creative teams automate creative production, manage campaign workflows, and activate campaigns faster through templates and AI.

What you will do

• Design and maintain the browser-based rendering engine that converts layered compositions, media, and effects into static and real-time creative output.
• Build Canvas 2D, WebGL, and WebGPU compositing for layouts, vector work, transitions, color grading, and visual effects.
• Develop frame-accurate playback using WebCodecs while keeping audio and video synchronized.
• Build multithreaded rendering with Web Workers, OffscreenCanvas, and transferable buffers.
• Optimize rendering performance and memory usage through texture pooling, allocation-free hot loops, and profiling.
• Define architecture, review code, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams on AI-powered creative capabilities.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience delivering graphics, systems, or frontend software in production.
• Graphics programming for the web, including SVG and Canvas.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript performance-engineering experience with workers, OffscreenCanvas, memory profiling, and hot-loop optimization.
• Understanding of video fundamentals, including frames, color, encoding and decoding, and audio/video synchronization.
• Experience defining rendering architecture, performance budgets, and memory and threading models.
• Ability to take ownership of outcomes, contribute hands-on code, review implementation, and mentor engineers.

Nice to have

• Hands-on WebGL, WebGPU, GLSL, or WGSL shader experience.
• WebCodecs experience and prior work on an NLE, creative tool, media application, or VFX system.
• Knowledge of color spaces, gamma, Rec.709, and sRGB.
• Rust or C/C++ compiled to WebAssembly for audio DSP, software decoding, or pixel-processing kernels.
• Vue.js 3, CI/CD, cloud deployments, shared components, or design systems experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Values emphasize ownership, impact, ambition, diversity, and collaboration.
• AI coding assistants and agents are part of the engineering workflow.
• Employee community groups support inclusion and connection across shared interests.
• Commitment to employee wellbeing, environmental responsibility, and fair treatment of applicants.

Hiring process

• Submit an application for review and follow-up from the hiring team.