Senior Ads Engineer, Brave
Building a fast, privacy-oriented web browser
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Building a fast, privacy-oriented web browser
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To fix the web by giving users a safer, faster and better browsing experience.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for somebody who always prefers a simple solution over a complex one and who can take whole solutions from end to end
- 10+ years of Software Engineering experience
- Experience with writing and deploying production JavaScript/TypeScript backends and tools
- Focus on delivering outcomes across the entire stack from infrastructure, database, backend to front end administrative tooling
- Experience with SQL
- Enthusiasm for data analysis and trending
- Experience with AWS
- An eye toward monitoring and reliability
- Strives to deliver documented, maintainable, and tested code
- Comfortable working in an open source setting
- A passion for helping protect users’ privacy and security
- Written and verbal communication skills in English
- Proven record of getting things done
- Self motivated and comfortable working in a fully distributed team environment
Desirable
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with ad-tech / marketing tech ecosystem
What the job involves
- Brave Ads is Brave’s global private ad network, redesigned from the ground up to reward users while enforcing the highest standards of user privacy
- Both end users and partners depend on our backend code to work reliably day in and day out, and scale up to meet ever increasing demand
- Brave is looking for a flexible, full stack engineer who can help us build out additional features for marketers, and help us to further scale our ad serving platform
Our take
Brave, with a reputation as one of the more secure browsers on the market, is a free web browser that stands out for focusing on privacy-first features like ad- and tracker-blocking, but it also gives out rewards to users who choose to opt in to ads.
The company has gained popularity in recent years as it is constantly solving the irritating problems faced when browsing the web, finding new solutions to improve the web-surfing experience, such as recently blocking cookie consent notice popups.
Its momentum can be attributed to the fact, it claims, that it runs three times faster than Google Chrome and is widely available on different platforms, from Windows, Mac and Linux computers to Android and iOS mobile devices. Further growth is inevitable following recent funding, so it'll be intriguing to see what it does next.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2019
$30m
SERIES A
Aug 2016
$4.5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $37m
Company benefits
- Industry-leader in privacy, with a research and engineering team that’s innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech
- Generous home-office stipends
- Fully remote team (no office, no commute)
- Welcoming, humble, ridiculously smart teammates, and a truly flat org structure
- Opportunity to get in early at a hyper-growth company, and revolutionize the web
- Oh, and did we mention Brendan, our CEO & co-founder, invented JavaScript?
Company HQ
South Park, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Brendan Eich
(CEO)Previously acted as CEO for Mozilla and has experience as a Software Engineer for MicroUnity and Silicon Graphics.
Brian Bondy
(CTO)Previously co-founded VisionWorks Solutions and has experience as Senior Software Engineer for Mozilla and as Software Developer Lead for Khan Academy.
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