Lead Engineer, Mozilla
Common Voice
€91.6-102.9k
React
Kubernetes
CSS
TypeScript
GCP
HTML
Python
Node.js
MySQL
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Germany
Internet software for people, not profit
Job no longer available
Internet software for people, not profit
1001+ employees
B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsPrivacySaaS
Job no longer available
€91.6-102.9k
React
Kubernetes
CSS
TypeScript
GCP
HTML
Python
Node.js
MySQL
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Germany
1001+ employees
B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsPrivacySaaS
Company mission
To ensure the internet remains open and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Passion for developing high quality, high impact products, platforms and experiences
- At least 7+ years of progressively responsible professional experience in full stack web development in a product team or product-centric company
- Experience leading technical decision making processes and managing and mentoring others
- An interest in voice technology and/or AI
- Fluency in HTML/CSS, Node.js, React, Python, MySQL and TypeScript
- Experience with data access and pipeline work, including designing and improving infrastructure for ingesting, storing, and transforming data
- Experience with highly scalable distributed systems hosted on cloud providers (e.g. Google Cloud Platform)
- Infrastructure experience - eg with Kubernetes - a strong plus
- Fluency in web application architecture, including data structures and microservices
- The ability to translate wireframes, style guides and design direction into polished, production ready visual experiences
- A user-centred approach, with a keen interest in collaborating with and serving a community’s needs. Ideally, have worked on contributor or community participation technologies in the past, or have had substantial personal experience contributing to an open source project
- Awareness of the need for accessibility in implementation and a willingness to collaborate with designers to deliver inclusive experiences
- Very strong communication skills -- you communicate your opinions clearly and listen to others carefully
- Interest working in, and communicating with, multidisciplinary teams with different backgrounds and skillsets - you must have a deep respect for the different skills that people bring
- A willingness to learn and keep growing, both professionally and personally
- We welcome applicants from different geographies - willingness to partly overlap with European and African time zones would be helpful
What the job involves
- Most significantly, this includes the Common Voice project, which aims to shape the future of voice AI! Voice AI leaves most languages, accents and demographics behind. This project seeks to build openly available data sets for training machine-learning driven voice technologies
- The core of this project is a platform that supports language communities and individual volunteers to “donate their voice” to an open data set, which anyone can then download for commercial or non-commercial use
- The Lead Engineer for Common Voice will be part of a team of three engineers working directly for the project - and as this project is open source, also supported by hundreds of passionate Common Voice volunteers
- Work directly with the Product Director to shape and inform all aspects of the product roadmap
- Translate strategic product requirements into engineering requirements in close collaboration with the other engineers - you will take the lead on deciding architectural direction and clearly weigh the trade offs between different paths
- You will partner with the Product Manager and Designer to create technical content for PRDs, decide on appropriate ticket articulation, sizing and support allocating tickets between team members
- You will line-manage 2 software engineers, helping them to grow and thrive in their roles. You will use both day-to-day code reviews and regular pairing, and more structured rhythms like progression reviews, to support them
- You will be hands-on with the codebase - this is a small team, and you should still expect to help deliver features using a mixture of languages, frameworks and tooling, including HTML, CSS, React, Typescript, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, MySQL, Python and more that support the Common Voice platform and dataset
- You will have primary responsibility for ensuring the security, logging, performance and accessibility of the platform - this means you will support security incident handling (including, on very rare occasions, responding to cyber-emergencies outside of working hours)
- You will be excited to lead technical discovery processes and enshrine engineering best practice, improving tooling, and considering how to use AI to augment workflows
- Partner with the community management team to understand the wide and diverse community of software engineers, language activists and data scientists globally who use and contribute to Common Voice, and respond to that community’s needs, for example by reviewing their PRs
- Collaborate with designers to build and deploy prototypes and experiments that test experience concepts. You will help plan for iterations inclusive of accessibility and responsive design standard methodologies
- Communicate clearly, thoughtfully and regularly - this is a remote, distributed team with a strong culture of warmth, trust and openness
- Be able to roll with ambiguity and change - we are making several transitions within the platform, and within the organisation. This means it is an exciting time to join!
- You could:
- Give talks and represent the Common Voice project publicly, including at high profile events, or write technical blog posts for our developer community
- Mentor more junior members of the team, as well as others around Mozilla (e.g through skills-sharing and/or pairing)
Our take
Mozilla develops a range of free and open-source software, with its most familiar product being Firefox. Operated with a mission-driven, not0for-profit ethos, Mozilla champions online privacy, open standards and user-choice.
Beyond Firefox, Mozilla has focused on privacy forward offerings such as Mozilla VPN, which allows users to browse securely without being tracked. The company has also streamlined its product portfolio to concentrate on initiatives that align closely with its core mission, ensuring resources are dedicated to improving user experiences while fostering safer, more open digital environments.
Alongside this, its impact extends into the developer and tech community, having played a pivotal role in the creation of Rust, a systems programming language celebrated for its speed and efficiency. With a loyal user base, ongoing innovation, and a clear commitment to privacy and open-source principles, Mozilla remains an influential player in the technology landscape.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Led by a woman
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2018
$1.2m
GRANT
Jan 2005
$0.3m
ANGEL
Total funding: $3.5m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness: Mozilla covers medical, dental and vision plan premiums at 100% for U.S. and Canadian employees. Our offerings give you the options you need to manage your health — and your family’s — the way you want.
- Mental health: Mental health is as important as our physical health. That’s why Mozilla’s health benefits include therapy and coaching sessions to make sure our people have access to the care they need.
- Time away: With all of life’s demands, time away from work to disconnect and recharge is essential. In addition to country-specific holidays (12 in the U.S. and Canada), vacation and sick time start accruing right away (specifics vary by country). Everyone also takes a pause together on quarterly all-company wellness days, plus you get to celebrate the most personal holiday of all: your birthday.
- Parental leave: While Mozilla’s parental leave policies vary globally, our U.S. and Canadian-based employees can look forward to 26 weeks of paid leave for childbearing parents and 12 weeks of paid leave for non-childbearing parents.
- Financial: Mozilla is a private company, so our compensation isn’t tied to stock options or equity plans. Instead, we offer generous, performance-based bonus plans to all regular employees to underscore that we share in our success as one team. As for retirement savings for US and Canadian employees, Mozilla contributes a percentage of your eligible base salary each year to the 401(k) Plan/RRSP (regardless of whether you contribute or not), with 100% vesting.
- Learning and development: We’re big believers in learning by doing, and we also want to invest in your education and development beyond your role. Every employee is eligible for an annual professional development budget. Mozillians can put it toward technical or management training, certifications, conferences and more.
- Help when you need it: Life is full of surprises; that’s why it’s important to be prepared. Mozilla provides Life/AD&D and Short and Long Term Disability insurance (offerings may vary by locale) to ensure that you and your family will have a safety net in place should you ever need it.
- Plus a bit more: A few other benefits include a quarterly wellbeing stipend (to use on those things just for you), an employee referral bonus, internet reimbursement if you’re remote, and a budget for office essentials to make working remotely ergonomically comfortable.
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Laura Chambers
(CEO)Alongside serving as the CEO at Mozilla, Laura is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Previously, she was the CEO and PResident at Willow Innovation, Director at Patelco Credit Union, and General Manager of Core Hosts & Community at Airbnb.
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