Senior iOS Camera & Video Engineer for Real-Time Media

BeReal; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Swile Lunch voucher

Gym membership

Premium healthcare coverage

Annual tech conference budget

Job summary

BeReal is seeking a Senior iOS Camera & Video Engineer to enhance the camera experience in our product. You will tackle challenges related to image and video capture, ensuring a high-quality and reliable experience across devices.

The ideal candidate has over 6 years of iOS experience and a proven track record with AVFoundation and real-time processing. Benefits include competitive salary, health coverage, and opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of iOS experience with strong hands-on work on camera and video features.
• Deep expertise with AVFoundation and iOS camera APIs.
• Strong experience designing and optimizing performance-critical pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance camera and video features on iOS.
• Optimize CPU, GPU, memory usage, and multithreaded processing.
• Collaborate closely with engineers across teams.

Skills

iOS development

AVFoundation

Real-time video processing

Swift

Multi-camera capture

Tools

Instruments

SwiftUI

Combine

Metal

Job description

About BeRealAt the company, we are dedicated to authenticity in social media. By encouraging users to share unfiltered moments, we foster genuine connections and celebrate real life. We are now an international team of 100+ and have 40M+ monthly active users. Backed by Voodoo, our team is fully focused on scaling the company into an iconic social network used by hundreds of millions.

RoleWe are looking for a Senior iOS Camera & Video Engineer to join the company and work on one of the most critical parts of our product: the camera experience.

You will build and improve the capture, image, and video pipelines behind the company's core flows — including multi-camera capture, instant capture, front/back video composition, and media quality.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys working close to Apple's media APIs, solving real-time performance challenges, and delivering a fast, reliable, high-quality experience.

What you will do:

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance camera and video features on iOS.

• Own and improve parts of our AVFoundation camera stack: capture sessions, devices, formats, frame rates, exposure, and device capabilities.

• Build and optimize real-time image and video processing pipelines.

• Improve capture quality, latency, stability, and smoothness across supported iPhone models.

• Work on multi-camera flows, front/back video composition, video encoding, media export, and audio/video synchronization.

• Optimize CPU, GPU, memory, battery usage, thermal behaviour, buffer allocation, and multithreaded processing.

• Investigate device-specific and iOS-version-specific behaviour, and propose pragmatic technical trade-offs.

• Work closely with iOS engineers, product, design, backend, and data teams.

• Contribute directly to the codebase and raise engineering standards around media performance and reliability.

Profile• 6+ years of iOS experience, including strong hands-on work on camera, video, or media-heavy features.

• Deep expertise with AVFoundation and iOS camera APIs: AVCaptureSession, AVCaptureDevice, video outputs, capture formats, frame rates, exposure, and device configuration.

• Strong experience designing and optimizing real-time camera, image, and video pipelines, with a solid understanding of media formats, encoding, buffer management, and capture quality and performance constraints.

• Strong performance mindset: CPU/GPU usage, memory, battery, thermal constraints, multithreading, and minimising buffer copies.

• Comfortable with iOS profiling tools such as Instruments, Time Profiler, Allocations, and Metal System Trace.

• Strong Swift skills. Experience with Metal, Core Image, or lower-level Apple APIs is a plus.

• Autonomous, pragmatic, and comfortable solving complex hardware/software limitations.

Bonus:

• Experience with multi-camera capture or front/back video composition.

• Experience with Metal or GPU-accelerated image processing.

• Experience in consumer social, gaming, creative tools, or another real-time mobile product.

Our Stack• iOS: Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, Swift Concurrency, SPM, MVVM

• Media: AVFoundation, Core Video, Core Image, Metal

• Ops: GitHub

• Android: Kotlin, Compose, Coroutines, Room, gRPC

• Backend: Go, Node.js (NestJS, Nx, TypeScript)

• Infrastructure: GCP, GKE, Firebase

• Data: Amplitude, Tableau

Benefits• Competitive salary based on experience

• Swile Lunch voucher

• Gymlib (100% covered by Voodoo)

• Premium healthcare coverage with SideCare, 100% covered for you and your family

• Wellness activities in our Paris office

• €1,000 annual budget for attending tech conferences and professional events

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