Staff Software Engineer, The Browser Company
Windows Product
$250-300k
+ Chose of cash-to-equity ratio hat best suits their individual needs
More information about location
Building Arc, a new web browser
Open for applications
Building Arc, a new web browser
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$250-300k
+ Chose of cash-to-equity ratio hat best suits their individual needs
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
- Deep Windows UI Expertise: You have 7+ years of experience building and shipping high-quality Windows applications, with a strong understanding of the platform’s APIs, frameworks (XAML and WPF, UWP, or WinUI), and best practices
- Strong Technical Skills: Proficiency in C++ or similar languages, with a focus on UI craft and desktop app experience
- Attention to Detail: You care about the small things that make a product feel polished, from pixel-perfect UI to smooth animations
- User-Centric Mindset: You think about how your work impacts the end user and strive to create intuitive, delightful experiences
- Collaborative Approach: You excited about the idea to share your knowledge of Windows UI design with others and learning from your teammates
What the job involves
- As a Product Engineer for Windows, you’ll help bring Dia (our second browser product) to life for hundreds of thousands of Windows users, ensuring it feels as polished, intuitive, and delightful as it does on other platforms
- With your user-design expertise and passion for a well-crafted Windows application, you’ll guide the UI for Dia — a first-of-its-kind browser with an AI-assistant built using Swift on Windows
- Build for Windows: Lead the UI development of Dia for Windows, ensuring it integrates seamlessly with the platform’s unique features and conventions
- Shape the Product: Contribute as an early team member to decisions about architecture, user experience, and technical trade-offs, ensuring Dia is a joy to use on Windows
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with Design, Infrastructure, and Data Teams to create a browser experience that feels native to Windows
- Solve Complex Problems: Tackle challenges like performance optimization, memory management, and compatibility to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure Swift on Windows browser
- Within 1 month you will..
- Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy
- Receive a number of onboarding presentation on how we give each other feedback, the phases a startup goes through, our technical strategy, and more
- Get familiar with Chromium, Swift and our development environment across Mac and Windows
- Have shipped a few bug fixes and features across our codebase
- Have pair programmed with a large portion of the engineering team
- Within 3 months you will..
- Have owned building numerous core features of Dia on Windows
- Be a primary point of contact for bugs and product iterations within core parts of our Windows application
- Be involved in product discussions about certain product surface areas within Dia as a whole
- Be involved in weekly engineering discussions about our architecture, how we do code review, code style, and more
- Be regularly posting feedback about using the browser in our #dogfooding channel
- Be contributing to on-call rotations and jumping into incidents to support the team
- Within 6 months you will..
- Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company
- Be leading projects from conception to production launch
- Be mentoring and pair programming with newer engineers to help them get spun up on the codebase
Application process
- Deadline to Apply: 15 May 2025 at 08:00 BST
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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 HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
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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