Staff Software Engineer, The Browser Company
Developer Experience
$225-275k
+ Equity Salary is benchmarked on American rates and may vary on further locations
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Web browser developer
Job no longer available
Web browser developer
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$225-275k
+ Equity Salary is benchmarked on American rates and may vary on further locations
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a better web browser— one that enables people to build their own home on the internet, and arms them with the tools they need to be more focused, organized, and in control.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience with developer tools and build environments, open-source developer tooling, or low-level systems experience
- You’re an expert in at least 1 build system and have had exposure to different kinds of build systems such as CMake, Bazel, Buck, or MSBuild
- You’re well-versed in C++ or open to becoming a C++ and Swift expert
- You're passionate about building tools and systems that make other engineers more productive and strive to make them elegant and maintainable
- You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer on the Developer Experience Team, you’ll partner closely with the Swift Toolchain and Security team to build the tools, systems, and developer environments that empower our team to quickly and safely ship features to millions of members
- We’re excited to share our work with the broader community and have shared many of our projects to open source, working closely with the head of Swift Language at Apple and the LLVM Foundation
- Scope and spearhead technical projects across our Windows and Mac developer ecosystem, including within our toolchain, builds, developer tooling, and testing architecture
- Design APIs and tools that abstract away complexity and enable product engineers to collaborate and iterate on our core products
- Ensure product development is progressing quickly by finding and fixing inefficiencies in the appropriate layer of the system
- Dig into various layers of our development stack to improve performance and ergonomics, including our compiler, dependencies, editor, language server, build system and CI/CD pipelines
- Give back to the open source community. We believe in upstreaming our work to benefit the community that our work has stemmed from
- After 1 month you will..
- Onboard onto our team and codebase with your onboarding buddy
- Attend a number of onboarding presentations on the company, product, codebase, and culture
- Get familiar with Swift, our Swift toolchain and tooling, and our Windows and Mac roadmap
- Ship a few bug fixes and small improvements across our codebase and tooling
- Have pair programmed with a few people on the engineering team
- Be regularly posting product feedback about the browser in our #dogfooding channel
- After 3 months you will..
- Be familiar with our Windows and Mac dev environment, analyzing ways to make engineers' lives easier with tools and automation
- Be familiar with our Swift toolchain, Swift for Windows bindings, and how we integrate with Chromium
- Ship a few tickets to improve developer tools like our Swift toolchain, editor experience, debugger, or builds
- Be involved in weekly engineering discussions about our architecture, how we do code review, code style, and more
- Be contributing to on-call rotations and jumping into incidents to support the team
- Be involved in infrastructure discussions like how we add better observability to debug issues in production, how to improve monitor performance regressions, and how we stabilize our updater
- After 6 months you will..
- Leading projects from conception to launch, working cross functionally as needed, and helping to scope out future project work for the team
- Making a lasting impact on our engineering efficiency and the safety of our release cycles
- Be interviewing candidates to join the Browser Company
- Be mentoring and pair programming with newer engineers to help them get spun up on the codebase
Application process
- Deadline to Apply: 15 January 2025 at 07:00 GMT
Our take
Web browsers enable people to access all that they want from the internet. However, this tool is often ignored, and despite all the changes to other software over the years, it has remained relatively unchanged. The Browser Company delivers Arc and Dia - new web browsers designed to be faster as well as more personal, focused and creative than traditional options.
Founded in 2019, The Browser Company sees an opportunity to create a browser that excites. Brand dedication for the more common browsers is limited, as they are designed to act in the background. Instead, The Browser Company wants Arc and Dia to act intelligently, visibly overcoming problems like overwhelming hits, online distraction and information being hidden under irrelevant results.
Its competitors of course include some of the biggest names in tech, but it hopes to stand out with a browser that is dramatically new and more powerful, which will earn its own unique space in the market. Arc was released for mobile and Windows in 2024, followed by the AI-focussed Dia in 2025, and they have so-far been met with positive reviews.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2024
$50m
LATE VC
Jan 2023
$56.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $136.8m
Company benefits
- Choose-Your-Own-Compensation Plan: When we give you a job offer, we’ll actually give you two different offers — one that is focused on having a higher salary and one focused on higher equity. Candidates can choose either offer (or any numbers in-between) when they accept.
- Best in the Biz Insurance: We provide employees with full coverage medical, vision, and dental insurance and a free One Medical membership to help you keep you and your family healthy. We cover 100% of employee plan costs and up to 90% for dependents.
- Napping During the Workday: Some of us are better in the mornings, others are more productive in the afternoon. People should take breaks when they need to. If you’re on our team, we trust you to get your work done — our policy is: work when it makes sense for you!
- Take Time Off, Please!: We believe that people do their best work when they’ve rested and had valuable time off. So rather than having a maximum number of days off, we actually have a recommended minimum vacation of 20 days a year. Take time off when you need it and also just when you feel like it.
- Extremely Flexible Parental Leave: We are proud to offer an extremely flexible 12 weeks of parental leave — for any parent regardless of gender and for birth, adoption, surrogacy, or fostering. Take the 12 weeks all at once, or split up days to slowly transition back to work — we’re accommodating to everyone’s different situations! Birth mothers also qualify for an additional 6 weeks of medical leave.
- Design Your Dream Home Office: We are a remote first company. About half of our team currently lives outside of New York and across 5 different time zones. So if you need some stuff to make working from home a bit easier, we offer a $1000 stipend for anything you need to get comfortable.
- Cozy Office in Brooklyn, Wooo!: If you do happen to live in the New York area (or you want an excuse to visit) you can come into our beautiful office in Williamsburg. Coming into office is entirely optional, some of us come almost every day and some of us come in once a week. No obligation, we just genuinely like each other!
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Josh Miller
(CEO & Co-founder)Board Member at Patreon. Co-Founder and former CEO of Branch.com. Former Director of Product for The White House.
Hursh Agrawal
(CTO & Co-founder)Principal/Owner of Enso Code. Former Interim CTO of Thirty Madison and of Jumprope. Co-founder and previous CTO of Zinc.
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