Senior Backend Product Software Engineer, Dropbox

AI Features

CA$184.5-249.5k

All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

React

MongoDB

JavaScript

Python

Node.js

Android

Postgres

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada

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1001+ employees

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Be an early applicant

CA$184.5-249.5k

All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

React

MongoDB

JavaScript

Python

Node.js

Android

Postgres

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada

1001+ employees

B2CB2BData storageEnterpriseCloud Computing

Company mission

Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

8+ years of software engineering or related industry experience, with at least 1–2 years building AI/ML-powered product experiences
BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience
You’ve built and shipped AI/ML-powered product features with real users
You have strong product instincts and thrive in ambiguous problem spaces
You can work across the stack and enjoy partnering closely with product, design, and AI platform teams

Desirable

Experience with semantic search, embeddings, or LLM-based UX patterns
Proven ability to ship end-to-end features in production (not just prototypes or research demos)
Strong product sense, with experience defining and refining user-facing functionality
Comfortable working full-stack or across system boundaries (frontend, backend, infra, ML platform)

What the job involves

We’re looking for senior engineers to help us embed Dash into Core, not just as a future vision, but as an immediate, top-priority initiative
You’ll work on projects that reimagine how people interact with their files: from an AI-powered onboarding experience that activates users from their first upload, to smarter ways of organizing and retrieving media using generative AI and semantic search
This is a high-impact role with visibility, urgency, and a clear mandate: use AI to make Dropbox smarter, simpler, and more useful for the people who rely on it every day
Design and build AI-powered product experiences directly into the Dropbox FSS flow
Collaborate with product and design partners to bring Dash capabilities (search, ask, summarize) into the Core experience
Use AI to simplify key user journeys, like onboarding and team setup
Work end-to-end: define, prototype, ship, and iterate on features in production
Drive the integration between Dropbox’s AI platform and product surface areas
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 software engineering team uses a range of technologies to solve interesting problems, including Python, React, Node.js, JavaScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Android development

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.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

3% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.4)

Trustpilot (1.3)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jan 2014

$350m

SERIES C

Oct 2011

$250m

SERIES B

Total funding: $607.3m

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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