Frontend Engineer, Proton
Payments
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
Be an early applicant
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.
Role
Who you are
- Deep understanding of JavaScript methodologies and design patterns
- Proficiency with TypeScript or any typed language
- Experience with React or 2+ similar frameworks, developing performant and reusable components
- Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, such as SOLID, Design Patterns, CI/CD
- A product mindset with a focus on offering the best user experiences
- Experience working in a distributed team
Desirable
- Awareness of common security issues in client-side development, such as those in the OWASP top ten, and how to mitigate them
- Familiarity with UX, accessibility, internationalization, and localization concerns and solutions
- Experience with Grafana or other monitoring platforms
- Experience with breaking down product requirements into architecture design and implementation
- Experience with NodeJS
- High-level understanding of cryptography concepts such as key exchange and the difference between symmetric and asymmetric encryption
What the job involves
- Differently than many other stacks at Proton, the Payments stack depends largely on external services such as payment providers, tax-information providers, currency-conversion providers... As such it is critical, for the success of the service, to build with resilience
- Internally our backend code is in general based on PHP/Symfony, our frontend is based on React, our mobile code is based on Kotlin (on Android) and on Swift (on iOS), with a growing shared codebase in Rust
- All our client-code is open-source and GPL3
- We are migrating our infrastructure to Kubernetes
- Everything runs on premise in Proton's data-centers
- To organize our work we use classic tools such as Jira and Confluence
- There's huge potential for growth no matter the domain, and the outcome for any candidate is an in-depth view into how money moves globally
- Build features in all of Proton's products
- Close interactions with products and engineers across the company
- Build scalable software architecture through software engineering best practices
- Optimise user experience and design
- As a Front-end Engineer at Proton, you will play a crucial role in developing Proton's most vital services and serving over 100 million users worldwide. We expect you to be customer-centric, continuously learning, passionate about technology and usability
- You are adept at turning technical complexities into seamless user experiences. Effective teamwork, collaboration with Product, Design, APIs, and your team, and data-driven decision-making are essential aspects of this role
- Develop new features: Developing, deploying and supporting high-quality user experiences, including feature development and implementation
- 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, including unit tests and integration tests, to ensure the reliability of core libraries
- Management: Break down large initiatives into smaller milestones to gather stakeholder feedback quickly, allowing us to course-correct immediately
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.
Kirsty
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
(Founder & CEO)Previously PhD Researcher at CERN
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