Staff Software Engineer, The Browser Company
Chromium
$225-275k
+ Equity
More information about location
Web browser developer
Job no longer available
Web browser developer
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$225-275k
+ 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
- You have 8+ years of production level coding experience, including 5+ years with C++
- You’ve previously worked with Chromium or have an interest in working on a browser and learning Chromium, including working with the broader open source community
- 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 Chromium Engineer on the Product Team, your contributions will be at the core of our next product — a browser that's smart, personalized, and takes work off your plate
- 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 a browser
- Used by hundreds of thousands of daily active users, your work will help shape the future of how people use the internet
- Design and spearhead projects for improving Chromium architecture and building new features
- Increase the engineering team’s iteration speed by improving our Chromium codebase with security and infrastructure updates
- Advise and direct fellow engineers on the architecture and capabilities of Chromium
- Create new APIs and optimize existing ones that allow for a seamless integration with our product code base
- Improve our product and release lifecycle and ensure that our products continue to improve in performance and stability over time
- Interact with the broader Chromium community, including collaborating with core contributors as needs arise
- After 1 month you will..
- Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy
- Receive a number of onboarding presentation on how we give each other feedback, the phases a startup goes through, our technical strategy, and more
- Get familiar with our Chromium codebase, app architecture, and developer environment
- Have shipped at least one change to a Chromium API in service of a product feature
- Have shipped at least one change in Swift to the product codebase
- Have pair programmed with others on our engineering team
- After 3 months you will..
- Be a point of contact for bugs, crashes, and architecture in our Chromium code base
- Have supported large-scope projects that require challenging technical solutions in our Chromium code base
- Have shadowed our processes for keeping Arc up-to-date with Chromium upstream
- Be involved in weekly engineering discussions about our architecture, how we do code review, code style, and more
- Be involved and help drive discussions around Chromium updates and best practices for developing new features with other engineers
- Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company, especially in the Chromium/infra space
- Be contributing to on-call rotations and jumping into incidents to support the team
- After 6 months you will..
- Have a large role in defining Browser Company’s technical roadmap as it relates to how the product and Chromium parts of the codebase interface
- Help define our standards for how Chromium engineers integrate with product engineers on our team
- Identify and lead projects leveraging your knowledge of both company direction and Chromium’s direction
- Be actively supporting and mentoring other engineers in understanding our Chromium code base and simplifying entry points for accessing the parts they need access to
Application process
- Deadline to Apply: 15 January 2025 at 07:00 GMT
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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