Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- Ukraine
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
Skylum empowers millions of photographers to create incredible images. Our award-winning photo editing software combines AI-powered automation with full creative control. We make editing enjoyable, easy, and accessible for everyone.
You’ll join an environment where growth, learning, and creativity are encouraged. Flexible schedules, trust-based workflows, and a supportive team give you everything you need to focus on your best work.
🇺🇦 Proudly Ukrainian, Skylum stands with Ukraine through action, regularly supporting organizations that help accelerate our victory.
For personal growth
A chance to work with a strong team and a unique opportunity to make substantial contributions to our award-winning photo editing tools;
An educational allowance to ensure that your skills stay sharp;
English, German and Polish classes to strengthen your capabilities and widen your knowledge.
For comfort
A great environment where you’ll work with true professionals and amazing colleagues whom you’ll call friends quickly;
The choice of working remotely or in our office space located on Podil, equipped with everything you might need for productive and comfortable work.
For leisure
Twenty-one days of paid vacation per year;
Fun times at our frequent team-building activities.
- What to expect when you apply
- An interview with our Talent Acquisition Manager
- Professional interview
- Management interview
And finally, your job offer!
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional C++ development experience
- Good knowledge of modern C++ (C++17/C++20)
- Understanding of RAII, move semantics, STL, and basic template programming
- Experience with multithreading and performance optimization
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to decompose technical tasks and estimate implementation effort
- Experience working in a collaborative team environment
- Understanding of scalable and maintainable software design principles
- Responsible approach to product and code quality
- CPU optimization skills
- English at B2 level (C1 is preferred)
Nice to have
- Experience with graphics APIs (Vulkan, Metal)
- Basic understanding of GPU acceleration / compute shaders
- Familiarity with ML inference frameworks (ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, CoreML, DirectML)
- Experience of low-level CPU optimization techniques - SSE/AVX/NEON intrinsics or Assembly language
- Background in computer vision, image, or video processing
- Experience with CMake
- Experience developing cross-platform solutions
- Experience optimizing applications for resource-constrained environments
- Experience taking part in technical sales and commercial exploration of new projects or products or experience working in early-stage startups
Benefits
- For health
- Medical insurance;
- Twenty-one days of paid sick leave per year;
- Role:
- С++ Engineer
- Job Type:
- Full Time
Company profile

Skylum
skylum.comSkylum (formerly Macphun) is a software development company in Kyiv, Ukraine, that makes photo editing software. It is known mainly for its award-winning editors Luminar Neo and Aurora HDR. Skylum also develops other photography apps for Mac, including Snapheal, Focus, Tonality, Intensify, Noiseless and FX Photo Studio, giving Mac users a range of tools for editing and improving their photographs.
- Headquarters
- Bellevue, Washington, United States
- Founded
- 2008