Engineering Manager

Summary

Join the Firefox team as a Desktop Engineering Manager and lead a geographically distributed team of engineers in enhancing the Firefox browser user interface. Drive initiatives to deliver high-quality, highly available, and maintainable software. Communicate team goals and project risks effectively, and build and iterate on engineering processes. Engage with your team members through regular 1-1s, providing feedback and support. Foster an inclusive environment and collaborate with various teams, including Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Analysis. This role requires a strong software engineering background, proven leadership experience, and excellent communication skills. You will be responsible for hiring, mentoring, and developing team members, ensuring their empowerment and growth. Mozilla offers a generous compensation and benefits package, including performance-based bonuses, comprehensive health coverage, retirement contributions, wellness days, and paid parental leave.

Requirements

• 3+ years leading engineers in a software development environment and working across multiple distributed teams
• Software engineering background that empowers you to drive technical decisions within the team and engage with engineers at all levels of seniority to triage, prioritize and implement
• Proven track record successfully leading and shipping sophisticated software projects on time in a loosely structured environment
• Strong communication and ability to develop positive relationships with others, regardless of their rank or role
• Passion to resolve problems, manage risk, lead change, and facilitate collaborative decision-making
• Experience effectively communicating with senior leadership and advocating for engineering priorities
• Desire to grow and learn as a manager, grow and develop others, and get results through others rather than personal technical proficiency
• Able to hire, mentor, empower, develop, and delegate to geographically distributed team members with different skills from your own

Responsibilities

• Drive initiatives to deliver value to our users while ensuring the software your team delivers is high quality, highly available, monitored, and maintainable
• Communicate your team’s goals, the scope and risks of your projects, and own the delivery of initiatives on clear timelines
• Identify, build and iterate on engineering processes that support a high performing team
• Engage regularly 1-1 with your team to discuss both technical work and professional development; provide direct and honest feedback about their individual performances
• Ensure developers are properly supported and empowered throughout the developer lifecycle
• Create an inclusive environment which engages and challenges your team members
• Work collaboratively with many teams including Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading multiple teams and/or driving multiple large scale concurrent projects
• Solid understanding of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Product management experience
• Experience working in open source environments

Benefits

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
• Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
• Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
• Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
• One-time home office stipend
• Annual professional development budget
• Quarterly well-being stipend
• Considerable paid parental leave
• Employee referral bonus program
• Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)