Senior Front-End Engineer, Proton
Wallet
+ Stock options
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
Open for applications
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience of professional software development using JavaScript ES6+ or TypeScript
- Strong web integration skills (CSS, design integration)
- Experience with React or 2+ similar frameworks, developing performant and reusable components
- Familiarity with best practices for ensuring code quality, including CI/CD
- Ability to make architectural decisions and contribute to strategic planning and product direction
- Experience working in a distributed team
What the job involves
- As a Front-end Engineer on the Wallet team, you will play a crucial role in developing Proton Wallet
- We expect you to be customer-centric, continuously learning, passionate about technology and usability
- You are an adept at turning technical complexities into seamless user experiences
- Effective teamwork, collaboration with Product, Design, APIs, and your team, and data-driven decision-making are essential aspects of this role
- The team has recently launched Proton Wallet. To ensure financial freedom for all, we provided a self-custody wallet, meaning we use end-to-end encryption to ensure that Proton will never have access to any wallet's encryption keys. We are now working on bringing this wallet to all users, amongst many other projects
- Developing, deploying and supporting high-quality user experiences within Proton Wallet, including feature development and implementation
- Transforming product specifications into technical requirements and lead your team to their successful implementation
- Enhancing Proton Wallet's software development lifecycle, tools, and code structure for an improved developer experience through technical leadership and architecture
- Writing clear, concise and testable code to maintain and elevate the quality of our codebase
- Managing the scoping, planning and execution of new features, technical initiatives and greenfield projects (depending on seniority)
- Fostering a culture of learning, creativity, and accountability for the best possible work through mentorship and team development, role modeling quality assurance and performance optimization
Our take
Proton is a Geneva-based startup founded by former CERN worker and internet privacy advocate Andy Yen. It provides internet users with encrypted webmail, calendar, drive, and VPN services.
Proton maintains its pro-privacy ethos using a Swiss VPN, protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. In essence, it has established a connection between the personal and the political, smartly utilising the country’s national laws to benefit people and organisations globally. Proton also funds charities and movements such as the World Wide Web Foundation and Netblocks, further cementing it as an influential NGO.
Perhaps Proton’s most important quality is its determination to maintain independence from advertisers and companies. Originally founded on donations, Proton has funded itself via grants rather than venture capital so that all of its customer's data is never at risk of being mined. One effect of this is that to keep up with the increasing competition in the data privacy sector, Proton has expanded its services to allow more cross-selling and simultaneously has more products to offer, such as drive and calendar privacy.
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back within 2 weeks
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- These vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events, and team-building activities.
Company values
- People first - Whether serving the Proton community or the broader world, Proton puts people first. it will always put making a positive impact before profits. Proton is independent, neutral, employee-controlled, and does not have venture capital investors.
- Do what is right - Proton believes doing what is right is a competitive advantage. Proton's culture empowers it to do what is right and to do work that it can truly be proud of. It aims to be a tech company with a conscience.
- Science is our foundation - Proton was founded by scientists, and science is part of its DNA and culture. It believes in technical excellence, rigor, and peer review. Integrity, honesty, and transparency are core values.
- We believe in privacy - Proton believes that privacy is a fundamental right and an essential part of being human. Without it, there can be no freedom. Privacy is a deeply held belief that guides all that Proton does.
- Together it’s possible - Proton believes in collective strength. Its mission can only be accomplished by working together with its community. Together, Proton is building a better internet for future generations.
Company HQ
Plan-les-Ouates, GE
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Leadership
Andy Yen
(CEO)Previously PhD Researcher at CERN
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