Backend Product Software Engineer, Dropbox

• If you're excited about turning complex technical challenges into intuitive solutions at scale, join our Engineering team
• 6+ years of software engineering and/or work related industry experience
• Previous success developing and shipping application platforms with a user-empathetic mindset
• Strong coding experience in Python and Typescript
• Skilled at building user-facing software and supporting systems and libraries for desktop
• You can handle full-stack projects and are able to build a minimum working product quickly
• Familiarity with project management tools and CI/CD pipelines

Desirable

• In this role you will specialize in desktop platform development
• The Desktop Developer Experience team builds core desktop technologies that enables product teams to create rich and intuitive foreground experiences that power AI features
• The platform we built utilizes web technologies to render rich experience to our users on Mac, Linux, and Windows
• As part of the team, you would be central to empowering our product engineers to quickly innovate on desktop
• Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels
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• Responsibilities
• Architect develop and maintain a platform that can be leveraged by product engineers so that they can be as productive as possible
• Accelerate desktop development by leveraging technologies like Electron
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business challenges and translate them into technical requirements and robust solutions
• Design and build software capable of reaching millions of users in Python, Rust, React, and Typescript
• Write modular, secure, and well-tested code
• Ensure that our development environment is best in class by delivering improvements to internal tooling and direct partnership with our product platform teams
• Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing sessions, and provide mentorship to junior team members, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented culture
• Own relationships with other engineering teams and collaborate with other functions within Dropbox
• 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
• The Dropbox Engineering Team builds the technology that creates more enlightened ways of working for hundreds of millions of people
• Every day, our platforms—including Dropbox Dash, Dropbox Sign, and our core sync engine—handle over a billion files for users worldwide, creating engineering challenges as great as the opportunity for impact
• Our software engineering team uses a range of technologies to solve interesting problems, including Python, React, Node.js, JavaScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Android development
• We think like a startup but build for an enterprise, exploring new possibilities that transform how people work

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