Lead Software Engineer — AI-Driven Graphics & UI

Cricut; South Jordan (UT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cricut is seeking an experienced Lead Agentic Software Engineer to develop features across iOS/iPadOS, Android, or Electron/Angular clients. This hands-on role emphasizes production code, agentic tooling, and collaboration with Product/UX to deliver shipped experiences.

You will own end-to-end feature delivery, optimize rendering performance, and contribute to CI/CD and telemetry initiatives while ensuring security and quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of professional client/frontend development experience with expert-level skill in one major platform (iOS, Android, or Electron/Angular).
• Hands-on graphics/rendering knowledge for the platform (Core Graphics/Metal, Canvas/Skia, or CanvasKit/WebGL).
• Experience with AI engineering tools and integrating AI/LLM capabilities where relevant.
• Expert-level proficiency in Swift, Kotlin, or TypeScript, with strong native UI framework expertise.
• Experience consuming REST APIs and working with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of secure credential storage and telemetry/observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Dedicate most time to writing, reviewing, and shipping production code on your primary platform.
• Design and build features end-to-end from spec to shipped experience.
• Collaborate with Product and UX to surface tradeoffs and feasibility early.
• Build and maintain high-performance 2D graphics editing and rendering capabilities.
• Drive CI/CD automation, release quality, and deployment processes.
• Ship behind feature flags with telemetry-based validation before rollout.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor teammates.

Skills

Frontend development

iOS

Android

Electron/Angular

Swift

Kotlin

TypeScript

REST APIs

CI/CD

AI tooling

Telemetry/observability

Security storage (Keychain/Keystore)

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Software Eng

Tools

SwiftUI

UIKit

Jetpack Compose

Electron/Angular tooling

Datadog / Firebase

Job description

Cricut is seeking an experienced Lead Agentic Software Engineer to develop features across iOS/iPadOS, Android, or Electron/Angular clients. This hands-on role emphasizes production code, agentic tooling, and collaboration with Product/UX to deliver shipped experiences.

You will own end-to-end feature delivery, optimize rendering performance, and contribute to CI/CD and telemetry initiatives while ensuring security and quality.