Senior Front-End Engineer, Mozilla

Firefox

CA$94-151k

Salary is partially dependent on location

CSS
HTML
JavaScript
Mid and Senior level
Remote in Canada
Mozilla

Designs, builds, and distributes internet software

Open for applications

Mozilla

Designs, builds, and distributes internet software

1001+ employees

B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsPrivacySaaS

Open for applications

CA$94-151k

Salary is partially dependent on location

CSS
HTML
JavaScript
Mid and Senior level
Remote in Canada

1001+ employees

B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsPrivacySaaS

Company mission

To make sure that the internet remains accessible, open, and transparent to everyone.

Role

Who you are

  • 4+ years experience as a software engineer
  • You have a background in shipping high quality software
  • 3+ years working experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
  • Interest in and ability to work with a distributed team (requires good asynchronous written communication skills as well as good verbal communication skills)
  • Happy to provide and receive constructive feedback
  • Will contribute by asking questions and proposing new ideas
  • A love of working with others collaboratively
  • Commitment to our values:
  • Welcoming differences
  • Being relationship-minded
  • Practicing responsible participation
  • Having grit

What the job involves

  • A Senior Software Engineer is the next level from a Software Engineer
  • At Mozilla, this role can vary, but is typically someone who is largely self directed after work is assigned and is advanced in their domain
  • They help team members get information they need to be successful while also being the go-to person for peer reviews in their domain
  • They have a solid understanding of the product strategy and can recommend solutions to critical issues when needed, assist junior engineers in risk management and escalation, and advocate for and implement changes that affect their team
  • A Senior Software Engineer actively seeks opinions and ideas from their team members, including those with varied experiences and perspectives to improve more collective results
  • Build high quality user interfaces for Firefox with accessibility and usability in mind
  • Write code and tests, build prototypes, tackle problems with no clear solution, collaborate with other designers and engineers to make the web a better place
  • Learn about a wide variety of problems and solutions across a large, mature codebase
  • Work with cross functional teams, building relationships and fostering collaboration to reach shared goals
  • Help to level-up the skills of your fellow engineers through code reviews, giving talks, and/or writing documentation
  • Promote and maintain high standards of code-quality, focusing on performance, testing, security, usability, accessibility and maintainability
  • Work with driven, committed team members to bring the open web to people around the world
  • Contribute to improving engineering practices and procedures

Our take

Mozilla creates and manages a range of free-to-use software products. Their most well-known product is Firefox, the fourth most popular internet browser in the world. Mozilla is a not-for-profit with a focus on promoting online privacy. The company has a published manifesto outlining its commitment to keeping a balance between commercial profit and public benefit.

The companies other products include Bugzilla, a bug management platform, and Pocket, an award-winning digital content filing service. In direct odds with Google, Mozilla has recently launched a new product Mozilla VPN. The VPN or virtual private network enables users to browse the internet without being tracked. Companies such as Google rely on tracking user behavior online to target them with advertising.

Mozilla was also instrumental in creating the programming language Rust, which is admired for its brevity. Rust uses roughly half the amount of code as C++ to produce the same results.

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Insights

Led by a woman

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

12% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Apr 2018

$1.2m

GRANT

Jan 2005

$0.3m

ANGEL

Total funding: $3.5m

Company benefits

  • Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance + Accidental Death & Dismemberment
  • Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Retirement Plan contributions
  • 20 Paid Time Off days per year (prorated) + your birthday
  • Company Holidays + Shutdown
  • Wellness budget
  • Reimbursement for professional development (up to $3,000/year)
  • Industry-leading paid parental leave (up to 26 weeks of fully paid leave for childbearing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-childbearing parents)
  • Flexible work environment (nearly half of Mozillians work remotely)
  • A work setup including the latest hardware and software of your choice

Company values

  • We welcome differences
  • We are relationship-minded
  • We practice responsible participation
  • We have grit

Company HQ

Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Mitchell Baker

(CEO & Chairwoman)

Mitchell worked as a lawyer and at Netscape Communications before co-founding Mozilla in 2003. They have served as Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation since then, and CEO as of April 2020.

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