Software Engineer, Compiler

The Browser Company

Compiler Engineer at The Browser Company enhancing Swift performance and supporting Windows application development. Collaborating with the open-source community and tackling technical challenges in language design.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $295,000 - $350,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidiOSJavaKotlinMacOSSwift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Investigate and address performance bottlenecks, focusing on areas like memory allocation, PGO/LTO/BOLT, and hot function optimizations.
Maintain and expand support for multiple operating systems, including Windows and Android.
Build and maintain custom toolchains on macOS and Windows, ensuring seamless integration with tools like Xcode and VSCode.
Drive innovations in Swift and C/C++, Java/Kotlin interoperability.
Nearly all of your work lands upstream in LLVM, Swift, and related projects.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of experience working with language compilers and complex codebases, such as LLVM.
Some familiarity with one of our operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS) is preferred, but not required.
You understand how to improve systems to make them easier to understand, debug, and maintain. You're excited about elegant, maintainable, and easy to use build tooling and configuration.
You're pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles.
We're primarily focused on hiring in North American time zones and require that folks have at least 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone.
You resonate with our company values.

Benefits

Comp & perks

best-in-class benefits designed to support you, your family, and your life outside of work. Think big-company perks with startup-style impact, ownership, and ways of working — so you have the space and support to do the best work of your career.

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Hard Skills & Tools

C++SwiftJavaKotlinLLVMmemory allocationPGOLTOBOLTcustom toolchains

Soft Skills

problem-solvingmotivationpragmatismadaptabilitycommunicationteam collaborationdebuggingmaintainabilityelegance in designstartup mindset