Staff Software Engineer, The Browser Company
Chromium
$265-310k
Web browser developer
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Web browser developer
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$265-310k
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 have 8+ years of production-level coding experience, with hands-on experience working directly with C++ and with Chromium development
- You’re flexible and interested in working across our entire tech stack, including learning Swift
- You have experience independently running critical projects or initiatives with minimal guidance
- You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles
- We’re primarily focused on hiring in North American time zones and require that folks have 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer, Chromium on the Product Team, your contributions will be at the core of building Dia
- By collaborating with various teams across the company, you’ll help unlock the full potential of the Chromium ecosystem and enable the team to build first-of-its-kind features into the browser
- We’re looking for someone who is product-minded, deeply curious, and excited to define new ways in which we interact with LLMs on a daily basis
- Our team took a unique approach to building Arc and Dia — we packaged Chromium as an SDK and wrapped our Swift code around it. Our Swift code base is shared across MacOS, Windows, iOS and Android (more on our Swift interoperability work can be found here)
- Design and spearhead projects for improving Dia’s embedded-Chromium architecture and building new features in partnership with Product Engineers
- Advise and direct fellow engineers on the architecture and capabilities of Chromium
- Increase the engineering team's iteration speed by building AI-driven tooling and improving our Chromium codebase with security and infrastructure updates — speeding up debugging, upgrades, and day-to-day development for everyone on the rotation
- Participate in the Chromium engineering on-call rotation, helping the team stay up to date with upstream changes, responding to incidents, and supporting major Chromium upgrades and releases
- Create new APIs and optimize existing ones that allow for a seamless integration with our product code base
- Interact with the broader Chromium community, including collaborating with core contributors as needs arise
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.
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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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