Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Dropbox

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience
• Minimum of 12 years of experience as a software engineer
• Must have worked in a consumer user-facing team (versus a platform team, a developer-facing API-based product, etc)
• If you're excited about turning complex technical challenges into intuitive solutions at scale, join our Engineering team

Desirable

• Dropbox, we believe in simplifying the way people work together. We provide a range of innovative cloud-based solutions to empower individuals and businesses to share, access, and collaborate on their files seamlessly
• Staff Engineers are pivotal in shaping our mission of building a more enlightened way of working where everyone can unleash their creative potential without constraints
• This team will own project Optimize Activation and Engagement Flows for Team Users
• Lead a multi-year plan to modernize onboarding and activation, clean up core Dropbox surfaces, and build intelligent, adaptive systems that boost team activation, invites, and long-term engagement across platforms
• Opportunity for large impact on the business helping Teams users activate on the right features to drive down churn
• Lead and mentor a team of 12 engineers to deliver high-impact business and customer outcomes
• Contribute hands-on coding (≈50%), primarily in the back-end stack, and write clear, high-quality technical specs
• Shape technical direction and partner with Product Management as DRIs for critical company-wide objectives
• Drive cross-organizational impact through strong collaboration with engineering teams and cross-functional partners
• Champion Agile practices, including planning, estimation, and retrospectives
• Foster a culture of innovation, clarity in ambiguity, operational excellence, and a strong bias for action
• Demonstrate senior technical leadership and maintain high engineering standards in a virtual-first environment
• 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