Frontend Engineer, Proton
Inbox Web
+ Stock options
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
Posted today
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
501-1000 employees
Posted today
+ Stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.
Role
Who you are
- You are an adept at turning technical complexities into seamless user experiences
- Extensive experience of professional software development using JavaScript ES6+ or TypeScript
- Experience with React or 2+ similar frameworks, developing performant and reusable components
- Experience writing tests at scale
- Familiarity with other best practices for ensuring code quality, including CI/CD
- Familiarity with UX, accessibility, internationalization, and localization concerns and solutions
Desirable
- Experience working in a distributed team
- Experience with Grafana or other monitoring platforms
- Awareness of common security issues in client-side development, such as those in the OWASP top ten, and how to mitigate them
What the job involves
- As a Frontend Engineer on the Inbox team, you will play a crucial role in developing Proton's most vital services, including Mail and Calendar
- We expect you to be customer-centric, continuously learning, passionate about technology and usability
- Effective teamwork, collaboration with Product, Design, APIs, and your team, and data-driven decision-making are essential aspects of this role
- Developing innovative productivity tools that seamlessly integrate with our privacy-centric ecosystem
- Advancing the frontiers of cryptography to ensure user data remains secure even in the face of emerging technologies such as quantum proof encryption
- Expanding Proton's reach into the B2B segment, bringing privacy and security to businesses worldwide
- Pushing the boundaries of innovation with projects like Scribe, the world's first private AI in a consumer product
- Scale Mail & Calendar B2B product development: Shape the future of products used by millions of people around the world
- Tech Stack and Tools:
- Javascript, Typescript, React, ES6
- Every Proton clients codebase are open source, Check it out here
- Encryption brings unique challenges to front-end development. A trivial search functionality becomes much more interesting to implement when the email body is fully encrypted
- Develop new features: Developing, deploying and supporting high-quality user experiences, including feature development and implementation
- Drive adoption and user retention: you will contribute to the user onboarding and delivering a delightful experience to retain
- Collaboration: Work closely with backend, product owners, designers, QA, and other engineers to take initiatives from ideation to completion
- Code review and optimization: Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality, maintainability, and performance optimization
- Testing: Develop and implement comprehensive testing strategies, on all test layers to ensure reliability and future ease of development
Our take
Proton is a Geneva-based startup founded by former CERN worker and internet privacy advocate Andy Yen. It provides internet users with encrypted webmail, calendar, drive, and VPN services.
Proton maintains its pro-privacy ethos using a Swiss VPN, protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. In essence, it has established a connection between the personal and the political, smartly utilising the country’s national laws to benefit people and organisations globally. Proton also funds charities and movements such as the World Wide Web Foundation and Netblocks, further cementing it as an influential NGO.
Perhaps Proton’s most important quality is its determination to maintain independence from advertisers and companies. Originally founded on donations, Proton has funded itself via grants rather than venture capital so that all of its customer's data is never at risk of being mined. One effect of this is that to keep up with the increasing competition in the data privacy sector, Proton has expanded its services to allow more cross-selling and simultaneously has more products to offer, such as drive and calendar privacy.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- These vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events, and team-building activities.
Company HQ
Plan-les-Ouates, GE
Leadership
Andy Yen
(CEO)Previously PhD Researcher at CERN
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