Staff Fullstack Product Software Engineer, Dropbox
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CA$204.9-277.2k
+ Stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units for eligible roles
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CA$204.9-277.2k
+ Stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units for eligible roles
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of relevant experience
- BS/BA degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to translate user requirements into practical solutions
- Ability to work across the stack on projects and able to build a minimum working product quickly
- Experience working on large scale user facing applications
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and present technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Desirable
- Prior experience on a product growth team
- Excited about building 0→1. Comfortable with ambiguity and pivoting directions
- Experience at building user-facing applications on web and/or desktop using front-end technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML5, CSS3
- Strong proficiency in backend development technologies such as Golang and Python
- Experience building large distributed systems at scale
What the job involves
- Our Engineering team is working to simplify the way people work together. They’re building a family of products that handle over a billion files a day for people around the world
- With our broad mission and massive scale, there are countless opportunities to make an impact. This is just the beginning of how Dropbox will use AI/ML to enhance knowledge work in today’s work environment
- We’re excited to bring a new generation of personalized AI-powered experiences in Dropbox to improve our customers' working lives and a more focused, efficient, and productive workday
- You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining AI-powered software applications
- You will work closely with cross-engineering teams, product managers, data scientists, and ML engineers, to build robust and scalable solutions to drive user engagement and business growth
- You will have the opportunity to grow a product at the beginning of it’s S-curve and to define the next generation of AI products at Dropbox
- Collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications for AI-powered software applications
- Define and deliver the multi-team growth strategy with measurable outcomes through ownership of product capabilities and technical systems
- Lead the design and delivery of software solutions across specific product areas or multi-component systems
- Establish engineering best practices, improve system reliability, and drive down technical debt
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to balance technical requirements with business goals
- Lead by example through high quality code, thoughtful reviews, and hands on mentorship, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented culture
- Mentor senior engineers; model high-signal design reviews and effective cross-team influence
- Conduct experiments and A/B tests to validate hypotheses and guide product decisions
- Participate in and uplevel on-call rotations to maintain service reliability
- Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours
- If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment
- The Dropbox Engineering Team develops the technology, platforms, and products that create more enlightened ways of working for hundreds of millions of people
- Customers rely on Dropbox to manage, share, and collaborate on content seamlessly—our engineering makes that easier and more intuitive than ever before.Our platform features a robust systems software layer that stores and processes exabytes of data, and a suite of growing services that enhance core products like our sharing and sync engine
- We’re also driving innovation with new offerings such as Dash, our AI-powered knowledge management engine
- Our infrastructure spans high-performance servers and cutting-edge components across multiple data centers worldwide, ensuring reliability, speed, and scalability at a global scale
- We think like a startup but build for an enterprise, exploring new possibilities that transform how people work
Application process
- Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying
- Dropbox supports responsible use of AI for preparation, but misrepresentation of skills or experience is not permitted
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.
Freddie
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: $607.4m
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
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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