What are the responsibilities and job description for the Creative Coder position at Sarafu?
Instagram is seeking a Creative Coder to help build products that inspire and enable expression. You’ll join Instagram in a hybrid role that encompasses art, design, and software engineering, and will be involved in every phase of the product development cycle — from initial strategy through launch.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Conceptualize, prototype, and build innovative tools, and carry them through to bug-free, performant code releases.
- Collaborate with designers and engineers to identify and implement creative/technical strategy and hands-on solutions throughout all phases of the product development cycle.
- Develop shaders and translate designs into code.
- Develop internal tools, functional prototypes, and production pipelines for your cross functional partners.
- Clearly communicate your thinking and creative/technical decisions to a variety of partners.
- Give and solicit feedback from partners in service of building the best products.
- 3 years professional experience as a creative coder, creative technologist, or similar role.
- Experience in authoring shaders in GLSL or Metal, and solid understanding of computer graphics fundamentals.
- Experience with creative coding frameworks like openFrameworks, Processing, Cinder or Three.js.
- Experience programming with JavaScript, Java, C , C# or other relevant coding languages.
- Demonstrates communication and collaboration skills.
- Portfolio that demonstrates design and technical skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Media Arts or equivalent program.
- Experience designing and prototyping with Origami Studio, Figma, Cinema 4D, and After Effects.
- Knowledge of generative AI, computer vision, and machine learning.
