Mozilla

Senior Software Engineer

Mozilla

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇸🇪 Sweden

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Salary

💰 SEK 512,000 - SEK 745,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

JavaScriptLinuxMacOSOpen SourceRust

About the role

  • Responsible for OS integration (updates, installs, integrating Firefox with operating systems) to grow user base
  • 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 what work supports the team and product roadmap and make insightful 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, improving the experience of hundreds of millions of users
  • Work with a geographically-distributed development team
  • Contribute to architectural discussions and drive feature development; work independently on scoped projects and collaborate closely with peers to deliver high-quality software aligning with team goals

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, ...)
  • You are an excellent communicator and have participated effectively on a distributed team
  • You’re pragmatic about how to move things forward in specific timeframes including trade-offs and safeguards when implementing new functionality
  • Experience working collaboratively with product managers, project managers, and/or other non-engineering teams
  • Professional programming experience in Rust (bonus)
  • Experience developing cross-platform desktop applications and low-level systems programming (Cocoa APIs on macOS, GTK on Linux) (bonus)
  • Previous successful contributions to open source projects (bonus)
Benefits
  • 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

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Hard skills
CC++RustJavaScriptsystems programmingcross-platform desktop applicationslow-level systems programmingCocoa APIsGTKREST
Soft skills
excellent communicatorcollaborativepragmaticinsightful recommendationsindependent workteam collaborationparticipation in distributed teams