Salary
💰 €68,000 - €99,000 per year
Tech Stack
JavaScriptLinuxMacOSOpen SourceRust
About the role
- Develop, innovate, and ship the next experience of Firefox through improved integration with the operating system
- Improve the ease of use and security of Firefox in large deployments by developing better administration and monitoring tools
- Assess work that supports the team and product roadmap and make recommendations regarding priorities
- Work with expert software engineers to further develop understanding of Windows, macOS and Linux platforms
- Optimize the quality of Firefox by hunting down and fixing software defects affecting hundreds of millions of users
- Collaborate with a geographically-distributed development team
Requirements
- Experience with systems programming on a major desktop platform (Windows, macOS or Linux)
- A solid understanding of C/C++ and some knowledge of Rust
- A solid understanding of JavaScript and typical interactions with the backend (services, REST, ... )
- Excellent communicator and experience participating effectively on a distributed team
- Pragmatic about trade-offs and delivering within timeframes
- Experience working collaboratively with product managers, project managers, and/or other non-engineering teams
- Bonus: Professional programming experience in Rust
- Bonus: Experience developing cross-platform desktop applications (Cocoa APIs on macOS, GTK on Linux)
- Bonus: Previously contributed to an open source project
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
- Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
- Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
- One-time home office stipend
- Annual professional development budget
- Quarterly well-being stipend
- Considerable paid parental leave
- Employee referral bonus program
- Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
CC++RustJavaScriptsystems programmingcross-platform developmentCocoa APIsGTKRESTsoftware defect fixing
Soft skills
excellent communicatorcollaborativepragmaticteamworktime management