Senior Fullstack Product Software Engineer, Dropbox

Web Experience

$180.2-274.3k

Actual salary is dependent on location. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Java

C++

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

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1001+ employees

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$180.2-274.3k

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Java

C++

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2CB2BData storageEnterpriseCloud Computing

Company mission

Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience building full-stack product systems, or equivalent practical experience
Experience designing, shipping, and operating large-scale, customer-facing web applications and multi-component systems
Strong frontend engineering skills with TypeScript or JavaScript and modern web frameworks such as React, plus experience with at least one backend language such as Python, Go, Java, or C++
Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of ambiguous, multi-phase initiatives, including adjusting scope based on customer, business, and technical constraints
Experience making architecture tradeoffs across frontend systems, APIs, data models, reliability, performance, observability, and production operations
Ability to learn unfamiliar systems, codebases, and approved AI or automation workflows while validating generated output for correctness, security, privacy, and maintainability
Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and align dependencies across Engineering, Product, Design, Data, Infrastructure, and platform partners
Awareness: Understand yourself and others
Judgment: Evaluate information and make decisions in complex situations
Adaptability: Learn, adjust, and stay effective through change
Connection: Communicate, collaborate, and build trust

Desirable

Experience with large-scale content, file, collaboration, or productivity systems
Deep experience with React and TypeScript together with backend APIs, services, and data modeling
Experience with AI-assisted product experiences, recommendation systems, or operational automation
Experience leading cross-team migrations, staged rollouts, or platform integrations and improving SLOs, observability, or test strategy

What the job involves

As a Senior Fullstack Product Software Engineer on Dropbox’s Browse & Navigate Web Experience team, you will own and evolve the customer-facing web experiences and supporting systems behind Browse, Navigate, Preview, and related workflows
You will lead ambiguous, multi-phase work from technical discovery and design through rollout and operational ownership, partnering with Product, Design, Data, Infrastructure, and platform teams
You will combine full-stack execution with sound architecture, production judgment, and approved AI-assisted workflows while remaining accountable for final technical quality
Own multi-phase full-stack product capabilities from requirements and technical design through staged rollout, measurement, and ongoing operation
Design and evolve scalable web experiences, services, APIs, and data models for Browse, Navigate, Preview, App Shell, window chrome, and shared web capabilities
Make architecture and scope tradeoffs that balance customer needs, delivery constraints, reliability, performance, security, privacy, and maintainability
Improve observability, testing, incident readiness, and on-call health, and lead debugging and production-risk decisions when systems fail
Use approved AI and automation tools for implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and operational workflows; validate outputs and standardize practices that preserve engineering quality
Align cross-team dependencies and create leverage through reusable components and services, design and code reviews, runbooks, technical documentation, and mentoring

Our take

Dropbox started by helping people bring together their files in one central place. The contents of these folders are synchronised to Dropbox's servers along with other computers and devices where the user has installed Dropbox, keeping the same files up-to-date across all devices.

Nowadays, there are lots of competing companies in cloud storage, and some with better distribution (e.g. Google and Apple). This explains why Dropbox is making a big push to reinvent itself after a fairly disappointing run since its IPO in 2018. The new Dropbox turns folders into "Spaces", which are collaboration hubs for teams, complete with comment streams, artificial intelligence tools and integrations into services such as Slack.

The company continues to build out its offerings through acquisitions, such as that of Formswift, bolstering its end-to-end agreement workflow capabilities. Indeed, It's very clear that Dropbox is trying to make a big move from being just a storage company. This seems to be a necessary move given the competitive nature of the industry it is operating within.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

3% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.9)

Trustpilot (1.3)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jan 2014

$350m

SERIES C

Oct 2011

$250m

SERIES B

Total funding: $607.4m

Company benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage
We offer a generous company contribution toward individual medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including contributions toward dependent premiums
Keep sharing and collaborating with friends and family even when you’re not at work with free Dropbox space for your whole crew
Take the vacation you’ve always dreamed of with up to four consecutive weeks of paid time off
Celebrate common holidays without your paycheck taking the hit with 11 company paid holidays
Each Dropboxer has access to 32 hours of paid volunteer time off each year that they can use to support the causes close to their hearts
We regularly offer panels and seminars featuring the best minds in tech, talent, diversity, and beyond that any Dropboxer can attend from the comfort of their home
No two Dropboxers are the same, and their benefits shouldn’t be either. Our Perks allowance empowers employees to customize their benefits in line with what really matters to them
Start building a successful 401K retirement plan with our dollar for dollar contribution match, up to $1,500 per quarter to a maximum of $6,000 per calendar year

Company HQ

Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Arash Ferdowsi

(Co-Founder)

Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university

Drew Houston

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university

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