Staff Software Engineer, The Browser Company
Backend Infrastructure
$225-275k
+ Equity package
More information about location
Building Arc, a new web browser
Job no longer available
Building Arc, a new web browser
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$225-275k
+ Equity package
More information about location
101-200 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
- Proven experience as a Technical Lead or Staff Software Engineer working with large-scale backend systems
- Demonstrated ability to lead high-impact, cross-team projects and influence architectural decisions at a company-wide level
- A strategic mindset, with the ability to see the bigger picture and align technical decisions with business goals
- Experience working with GCP, AWS, or Azure, with significant expertise in at least one of these, including proficiency in infrastructure-as-code practices and tools (e.g., Terraform)
- Experience setting up monitoring and observability for cloud infrastructure, e.g. with datadog, and using these tools to deliver improvements
- Proficiency in a programming language like TypeScript, Go, Java, Swift, etc
- You're passionate about building tools and systems that make other engineers more productive and strive to make them elegant and maintainable
- We’re primarily focused on hiring in North American time zones and require that folks have 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone
What the job involves
- As The Browser Company’s first Backend Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in driving the architecture and scaling of our backend systems
- This isn't just about solving day-to-day challenges; it’s about owning the big picture—architecting systems that power our product for millions of users, and shaping the strategic direction of our technical infrastructure
- We’re building the next version of Arc to deliver low-latency, highly available, and secure search and inference in the cloud, and your role will be critical in building and scaling the backend services to power the core features in the next version of our browser
- Lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable, robust backend systems that are critical to Arc’s success
- Own large-scale, high-impact technical projects that cut across multiple teams and directly influence our product and company strategy
- Serve as a technical leader and mentor, providing guidance and oversight to engineering teams on complex technical issues, architectural decisions, and best practices
- Influence and contribute to critical architectural decisions, ensuring we’re always building with the future in mind
- Drive cross-functional collaboration with product, security, and engineering teams to define technical vision and ensure the backend infrastructure evolves to support Arc’s growth and product innovation
- Design application backends, APIs, protocols, data structures, and assess system design
- Design and implement backend systems to support core product needs such as AI inference (eg. via self-hosting LLMs), proxying to other services, and data syncing across devices
- Support multiple clouds and LLM providers for improved availability
- Design highly performant, resilient, and scalable systems that provide a high quality experience for users on desktop and mobile platforms worldwide
- Implement effective observability and monitoring for our backend services
- Identify opportunities to iterate on our infrastructure to improve efficiency, developer productivity, or reduce costs
- Our core working hours are 11 AM-2 PM Eastern Time, Monday-Friday
Application process
- Deadline to apply: 31 December 2024 at 05:00 GMT
Our take
The browser is a universal piece of technology, enabling people to access all that they want from the internet. However, the browser itself is often ignored, and despite all the changes to other software over the years, it has remained relatively unchanged. The Browser Company is building a new browser named Arc; designed to think quicker, reduce user work, and facilitate the modern way in which the internet is used.
The Browser Company, founded in 2019, sees an opportunity to create a browser that excites. Currently, brand dedication for browsers is limited, as they are designed to act in the background, which keeps their performance issues in the background as well. The Browser Company aims for Arc to be intelligent, and overcome problems such as 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 by creating a browser that is dramatically new and more powerful, which will create its own space in the market through uniqueness in performance.
The Browser Company’s browser was released for mobile and Windows in 2024 and has been met with positive reviews. The company has raised impressive funds that will contribute to the further development of Arc and the release of Dia - an AI-focused browser - set to be released in 2025.
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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 values
- Show up with heartfelt intensity
- Start with "what could be?"
- Assume you don't know
- You're on the hook for the team
- Make them feel something
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
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Leadership
Josh Miller
(CEO)Board Member at Patreon. Co-Founder and former CEO of Branch.com. Former Director of Product for The White House.
Hursh Agrawal
(Engineering)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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