Render Engineering Team Lead

What you’ll do

• Lead a small team of render engineers: set direction, align on priorities, and ensure high-quality execution.
• Stay hands-on technically: design and implement key systems, tackle complex performance issues, and review critical changes.
• Oversee technical strategy for rendering, media pipelines, and platform performance across products.
• Own people leadership responsibilities, including:
• Regular 1:1s, coaching, and career development
• Annual performance reviews (and feedback cycles as needed)
• Hiring participation and team growth planning
• Building a healthy team culture with clear expectations and accountability
• Partner cross-functionally with product and engineering stakeholders to balance roadmap delivery with long-term technical health.

We want people who

• Understand the demands of real-time rendering and performance optimization.
• Have extensive experience with multi-threaded rendering and optimizing complex systems.
• Are proficient in low-level graphics APIs such as OpenGL, Metal, and DirectX, and can guide others in using them effectively.
• Write C++ as a primary language with deep expertise and practical judgment.
• Are familiar with video streaming technologies and can contribute to optimizing pipelines for low-latency processing.
• Can communicate clearly, give actionable feedback, and make good tradeoffs under constraints.
• Have an understanding of embedded programming and hardware-aware optimization.

Our best leaders will have

• Aptitude to lead even when not the technical expert
• A strong problem-solving mindset: able to diagnose bottlenecks and coach others through root-cause analysis.
• A passion for building efficient, reliable, scalable systems—and for building teams that can sustain and evolve those systems over time.