Staff Software Engineer, The Browser Company
Infrastructure
$225-275k
+ Equity
Building Arc, a new web browser
Open for applications
Building Arc, a new web browser
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$225-275k
+ Equity
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
- 8+ years of experience leading critical projects or initiatives in client-side or C++ infrastructure environments. iOS or MacOS experience is preferred, but Android, Windows, or general browser experience is great too!
- You've worked on large, complex codebases and understand how to improve systems to make them easier to understand, debug, and maintain
- You're passionate about building tools and systems that make other engineers more productive and strive to make them elegant and maintainable
- You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles
- 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 a Staff Software Engineers, Infrastructure you’ll contribute to the tools, systems and infrastructure that allows us to ship features to hundreds of thousands of Arc Members quickly and safely
- You’ll have the opportunity to work on different products and surfaces areas across the company — we value mobility and folks getting to work on the problems they’re most interested in!
- Scope and spearhead technical projects across server, client, browser, and OS layers
- Design APIs that abstract away complexity and allow engineers to use those abstractions to quickly iterate, collaborating closely with engineering teams across the company in the process
- Ensure efficient product development cycles by finding and fixing issues in the appropriate layer of the system
- Invest in observability, tooling, stability, and performance alongside building new systems
- Give back to the open source community. We believe in upstreaming our work to benefit the community that we benefit greatly from
- After 1 month you will..
- Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy
- Attend a number of onboarding presentations on our product journey, the phases a startup goes through, our technical strategy, and more
- Get familiar with Swift, our Chromium architecture, build tooling, and client-side infrastructure
- Have shipped a few bug fixes and features across our codebase
- After 3 months you will be..
- Be familiar with our Swift architecture and contribute to ideas that will make our engineers’ lives easier when prototyping and building new features
- Shipped a few tickets to improve infrastructure pieces like our AI product infrastructure, deployment systems, release process, or feature flags infrastructure
- Be involved in weekly engineering discussions about our architecture, code reviews, code style, and more
- Be involved in infrastructure discussions like how we add better observability to debug issues in production, how we better monitor performance regressions, or how we make our updater less finicky
- Be regularly posting feedback about using the browser in our #dogfooding channel
- Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company
- Be contributing to on-call rotations and jumping into incidents to support the team
- After 6 months you will be..
- Be familiar with Swift and C++ and how we interact with and build on top of our Chromium SDK
- Be adjusting our terraform config to deploy new infrastructure or update our build pipelines
- Own pieces of our infrastructure, and be the point-of-contact as product engineers have questions on how to improve performance or reliability
- Be driving 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 January 2025 at 07:00 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
Articles
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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