Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Dropbox
Dash Experiences
$192.4-292.9k
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)
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1001+ employees
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$192.4-292.9k
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)
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., Physics or Mathematics), or equivalent technical experience
- Deep technical experience working with Electron apps
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in Staff or Tech Lead roles
- Proven success in driving cross-platform architectural initiatives and scaling systems
- Strong communication and influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience leading large-scale migrations, refactors, or foundational infra investments
- Track record of mentorship and improving engineering craft org-wide
- A passion for building consumer applications with elegant and clean interfaces
Desirable
- Experience operating in complex, matrixed product organizations
- Familiarity with mobile, web, and desktop architecture
- Experience developing, testing, shipping and supporting a product for hundreds of thousands of users
What the job involves
- The Dropbox Engineering Team builds the technology that creates more enlightened ways of working for hundreds of millions of people.
- Every day, our platforms—including Dropbox Dash, Dropbox Sign, and our core sync engine—handle over a billion files for users worldwide, creating engineering challenges as great as the opportunity for impact. Our software engineering team uses a range of technologies to solve interesting problems, including Python, React, Node.js, JavaScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Android development
- We think like a startup but build for an enterprise, exploring new possibilities that transform how people work. If you're excited about turning complex technical challenges into intuitive solutions at scale, join our Engineering team.
- Areas of work include Machine Learning Engineers, Infrastructure Engineer, Product SWE Frontend and Backend, Mobile Software Engineers (iOS and Android), Engineering Manager, Data Engineer, Software Development Engineer in Test, Security Engineering, Site Reliability Engineer, Technical Program Managers, Network Engineer, Datacenter Engineer, Technical Supply Chain Manager and more
- The Experiences organization at Dropbox is responsible for shaping the core user experiences across mobile, web, desktop, and browser extensions. We’re looking for a Staff Engineer to lead technical strategy and execution across the Experiences org—which includes our Find & Discover, Collab & Assist, and Surfaces & Foundations teams
- This is a critical leadership role that requires deep architectural thinking, strong cross-team influence, and a commitment to engineering craft. You will be responsible for unblocking major platform migrations, leading multi-team app refactors, and setting long-term infrastructure strategy. You’ll work alongside product, engineering, data science, and design leaders to ensure technical execution supports our business goals
- As the first dedicated Staff Engineer in the Experiences org, you’ll serve as the technical glue across teams and platforms, with clear pathways to future Principal-level scope
- Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here
- Ensure scalable, high-quality client architecture and foundational infrastructure improvements to enhance developer efficiency and platform performance
- Lead large-scale app refactors to improve long-term architecture
- Align technical strategy across multiple teams and drive coordination across mobile, desktop, web, and browser surfaces
- Mentor engineers and tech leads to reduce execution friction and improve engineering craft through best practices, design reviews, and tech debt reduction
- Enhance operational excellence by influencing processes, tooling, and incident mitigation
- Define and maintain the technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with user and business needs
- Represent the team in company-wide technical discussions and forums
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
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2014
$350m
SERIES C
Oct 2011
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $607.3m
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
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
Drew Houston
(CEO)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
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