Software Engineer, The Browser Company
Systems
$265-310k
+ Equity
More information about location
Web browser developer
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Web browser developer
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$265-310k
+ Equity
More information about location
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
- Operating systems or low level systems experience. 5+ years of experience on the Operating System or other low level systems work. Some familiarity with one of our operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS) is preferred, but not required. Linux, VR/AR, or gaming systems experience is great too!
- 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
- Systems thinker. You're a systems thinker and are motivated by solving hard technical challenges at the forefront of the industry. You've worked on large, complex codebases and understand how to improve systems to make them easier to understand, debug, and maintain
- 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 Systems 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
- Spearhead technical projects for existing and new features across the Swift compiler, toolchain, SDK and frameworks for Windows
- Port existing frameworks to Windows and fix Windows-specific bugs and tests
- Monitor builds, investigating and fixing causes of failures in our Swift CI system
- Maintain and improve support for platforms under development and ones that are currently unsupported (Windows ARM64, Android, etc)
- Build a macOS toolchain via GHA that we can use as an alternative toolchain in Xcode
- Give back to the open source community. We believe in upstreaming our work to benefit the community that we benefit greatly from
- 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 Swift architecture and contribute to ideas that will make our engineers' lives easier when prototyping and building new features
- Shipped a few tickets to improve infrastructure pieces like our AI product infrastructure, deployment systems, release process, or feature flags infrastructure
- Be involved in weekly engineering discussions about our architecture, code reviews, 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, or how we make our updater less finicky
- Be regularly posting feedback about using the browser in our #dogfooding channel
- 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
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.
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 & 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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