Staff Software Engineer, The Browser Company
Compiler
$240-300k
+ Equity
Building Arc, a new web browser
Open for applications
Building Arc, a new web browser
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$240-300k
+ 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
- Compiler experience. You have 4+ years of experience working with language compilers and complex codebases, such as LLVM. Ideally, you’ve worked with Swift and/or C++
- Operating system experience. Some familiarity with one of our operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS) is preferred, but not required
- A passion for build systems and tooling. You understand how to improve systems to make them easier to understand, debug, and maintain. You're excited about elegant, maintainable, and easy to use build tooling and configuration
- Pragmatism and problem-solving. You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles
- You’re time zone overlaps with our team. We’re primarily focused on hiring in North American time zones and require that folks have at least 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone
What the job involves
- As a Compiler Engineer at The Browser Company, you will focus on advancing Windows support for Swift and developing new features that benefit both our internal projects and the broader Swift community.
- Your work will directly contribute to our efforts to redefine how browsers and cross-platform applications are built, leveraging Swift as a core part of our technology stack. You’ll have the opportunity to work closely with open-source communities while solving complex technical challenges that have a tangible impact on the future of software development
- Enhance Compiler Performance: Investigate and address performance bottlenecks, focusing on areas like memory allocation, PGO/LTO/BOLT, and hot function optimizations. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve build times and developer productivity
- Platform Support: Maintain and expand support for multiple operating systems, including Windows and Android. This includes enabling CI testing, debugging tools, and profiling capabilities to ensure robust toolchain performance. Maintain and improve support for multiple architectures including X86_64 and ARM64 across different Operating Systems. Be involved in emerging architecture support as well (e.g. RISCV)
- Toolchain Development: Build and maintain custom toolchains on macOS and Windows, ensuring seamless integration with tools like Xcode and VSCode. Develop deployment solutions for alternative toolchains to enhance developer workflows. Work to support new platforms for cross-compilation and improve existing ones across the compilation pipeline
- Cross-Language Interoperability: Drive innovations in Swift and C/C++, Java/Kotlin interoperability, enabling seamless integration for Windows and Android application development. Improve Swift’s interoperability with C and C++ codebases to improve developer experiences with multi-lingual codebases
- Collaborate with Open Source Communities: Contribute to upstream LLVM, Swift, and related projects, ensuring alignment with industry standards and fostering innovation
- After 1 month you will..
- Onboard onto our team and codebase with your onboarding buddy
- Attend a number of onboarding presentations on the company, product, codebase, and culture
- Get familiar with Swift, our Windows toolchain and tooling, and our Windows roadmap
- Ship a few bug fixes and small improvements across our codebase and tooling
- Pair programmed with a few people on the engineering team
- Be regularly posting product feedback about the browser in our #dogfooding channel
- After 3 months you will..
- Be familiar with our Windows architecture, and be thinking of ways to make product engineers' lives easier when prototyping and building new features
- Be familiar with our Windows toolchain, our Swift bindings, and how the Swift compiler works on Windows
- Shipped several tickets to improve Swift language features and Swift developer tooling
- Be involved in weekly engineering discussions about our architecture, how we do code review, 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, and how we make our updater less finicky
- After 6 months you will..
- Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at The Browser Company
- 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: March 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM UTC
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.
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)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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