Senior Frontend Product Software Engineer, Dropbox
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CA$184.5-249.5k
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Plus corporate bonus program or a sales incentive and stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
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Smart workspace company
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Smart workspace company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$184.5-249.5k
OTE
Plus corporate bonus program or a sales incentive and stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- BS degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
- 8+ years of software engineering and/or work-related industry experience
- Success developing and shipping a large-scale web application with a user-empathetic mindset
- Skilled at building user-facing applications and supporting systems and libraries on web and/or desktop using frontend technologies such as TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS
- Ability to work across the stack on projects and able to build a minimum working product quickly
Desirable
- Experience delivering high-impact features in fast-paced, high-growth environments, with a strong sense of ownership over both technical and product outcomes
- Comfortable working in lean, agile teams with frequent deployments and a high degree of autonomy, ideally in a startup or startup-like setting
- Strong user empathy and a track record of translating real-world customer feedback into elegant, scalable product experiences
What the job involves
- Our Product Engineers are at the forefront of crafting seamless, intuitive user interfaces that millions rely on for data interaction and collaboration
- At Dropbox, front-end engineers don’t just implement features—they help define them, ship them, and measure their impact
- As part of a team driving key business growth, every UI you build directly influences core metrics like user acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization
- Leveraging advanced knowledge in technologies like TypeScript, React, CSS, and HTML, our engineers ensure Dropbox's platforms are responsive, accessible, and deliver exceptional experiences at scale
- With a focus on optimization, experimentation, and innovation, Product Engineers play a critical role in evolving Dropbox’s offerings—making digital storage and collaboration more efficient, delightful, and impactful for users around the world
- Develop new user-facing features using React and Typescript
- Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
- Translate designs and wireframes from Figma into high quality code
- Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
- Work on integrations with calendar services, project management platforms, and to-do list trackers
- Support backend development from time-to-time as needed
- Collaborate with a scrappy, small team to build the future of time management!
- 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
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
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
Drew Houston
(CEO)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
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