Senior iOS Camera & Video Engineer (Real-Time Media)

BeReal.; Paris; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Swile Lunch voucher

Gymlib

Premium healthcare with SideCare

Wellness activities in Paris office

€1,000 annual budget for tech confs

Job summary

BeReal. seeks a Staff iOS Camera & Video Engineer to join our Paris team and own the camera experience across core flows.

You will build and optimize the capture, image, and video pipelines behind BeReal's moments, including multi-camera capture and front/back video composition. This hands-on role requires deep AVFoundation expertise, swift coding, and the ability to tackle real-time performance challenges on iOS.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of iOS experience focusing on camera/video or media-heavy features.
• Deep expertise with AVFoundation and iOS camera APIs (AVCaptureSession, devices, formats, frame rates).
• Strong Swift skills; experience with Metal, Core Image, or lower-level Apple APIs is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance camera and video features on iOS.
• Own and improve parts of the AVFoundation camera stack: capture sessions, formats, frame rates, exposure, device capabilities.
• Build and optimize real-time image and video processing pipelines.
• Improve capture quality, latency, stability, and smoothness across iPhone models.
• Work on multi-camera flows, front/back video composition, encoding, export, and A/V sync.
• Optimize CPU, GPU, memory, battery, thermal behavior, and multithreaded processing.
• Investigate device/iOS-version specific behavior and propose trade-offs.
• Collaborate with iOS engineers, product, design, backend, and data teams.
• Contribute to codebase and raise engineering standards for media performance.

Skills

iOS

Swift

AVFoundation

Real-time media pipelines

Performance mindset

Autonomous

Tools

AVFoundation

Metal

Core Image

Instruments

Job description

BeReal. seeks a Staff iOS Camera & Video Engineer to join our Paris team and own the camera experience across core flows.

You will build and optimize the capture, image, and video pipelines behind BeReal's moments, including multi-camera capture and front/back video composition. This hands-on role requires deep AVFoundation expertise, swift coding, and the ability to tackle real-time performance challenges on iOS.