Software Engineer, The Browser Company
Strategy & Ops
$150-299k
Web browser developer
Job no longer available
Web browser developer
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$150-299k
21-100 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
- You've either led or built engineering teams or large scale systems from the ground up
- You know how to influence change and smoothly roll-out new programs
- You have an engineering background and love to build small tools to solve problems
- You're people-centric and care about increasing the efficiency of the people on your team by improving processes or building tools
- You're self-driving and can see the bigger picture; you're able to reason about prioritization and scope
- You bias to action. We like learning as quickly as possible, so we embrace failing fast to refine our code, systems, and processes rapidly
What the job involves
- In this role, you'll report directly to our Head of Strategy & Ops with a direct line to the CTO and Head of Engineering
- You'll solve complex organizational challenges by building out new tools or processes, de-risk new engineering bets, and talk to experts inside and outside the company to help inform our technical strategy
- We expect someone in this role to run autonomously and take initiative on diagnosing and solving some of our company-wide challenges
- The work you do will help make our app better, our engineers more efficient, and help us grow from 30 to 50+ engineers on the team
- Projects would include things like:
- How to set up a data-center or research on encryption technologies
- R&D engineering work on SOC2 compliance
- Researching and coming up with proposals to improving engineering speed or design
- Solutions for increasing stability and engineering craft or design
- Talking to compiler, browser, and product experts across the industry to help inform our technical strategy
- After 1 month you will..
- Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy
- Receive a number of onboarding presentations on how we give each other feedback, the phases a startup goes through, our values, and more
- Get familiar with Swift, our architecture, and our tooling
- Ship a few small bug fixes and features across our codebase to get used to our codebase, developer environment, and process
- After 3 months you will..
- Have weekly check-ins with the CTO and Head of Engineering, and building an understanding of the organization and roadmap
- Be working on multiple projects at the same time, ranging from research to prototyping to building process
- Be involved in technical discussions about our architecture with senior engineers and architects on the team
- After 6 months you will..
- Be leading projects from end-to-end, from assessing the problem to deploying solutions
- Be working closely with the CTO and Head of Engineering in setting strategy and ensuring our roadmap is reasonable and impactful
- Be involved in strategic discussions about the future of our architecture, organization, and business
- Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company
Our take
Web browsers enable people to access all that they want from the internet. However, this tool is often ignored, and despite all the changes to other software over the years, it has remained relatively unchanged. The Browser Company delivers Arc and Dia - new web browsers designed to be faster as well as more personal, focused and creative than traditional options.
Founded in 2019, The Browser Company sees an opportunity to create a browser that excites. Brand dedication for the more common browsers is limited, as they are designed to act in the background. Instead, The Browser Company wants Arc and Dia to act intelligently, visibly overcoming problems like 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 with a browser that is dramatically new and more powerful, which will earn its own unique space in the market. Arc was released for mobile and Windows in 2024, followed by the AI-focussed Dia in 2025, and they have so-far been met with positive reviews.
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 & Co-founder)Board Member at Patreon. Co-Founder and former CEO of Branch.com. Former Director of Product for The White House.
Hursh Agrawal
(CTO & Co-founder)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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