Software Engineer

Summary

Join The Browser Company and help bring Dia, our second browser product, to life for Windows users! As a Product Engineer for Windows, you will lead UI development, ensuring seamless integration with Windows features. You'll contribute to key product decisions, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and solve complex problems to deliver a fast and reliable browser experience built using Swift on Windows. This is an early team member role with significant impact. We offer a competitive salary ($240,000-300,000 USD), flexible compensation model, comprehensive benefits, and a remote-friendly work environment.

Requirements

• You have experience building and shipping high-quality Windows applications, with a strong understanding of the platform’s APIs, frameworks (XAML and WPF, UWP, or WinUI), and best practices
• Proficiency in C++ or similar languages, with a focus on UI craft and desktop app experience
• You care about the small things that make a product feel polished, from pixel-perfect UI to smooth animations
• You think about how your work impacts the end user and strive to create intuitive, delightful experiences
• You excited about the idea to share your knowledge of Windows UI design with others and learning from your teammates
• You have at least 4 hours of overlap time with team members located in Eastern Time Zone

Responsibilities

• Lead the UI development of Dia for Windows, ensuring it integrates seamlessly with the platform’s unique features and conventions
• Contribute as an early team member to decisions about architecture, user experience, and technical trade-offs, ensuring Dia is a joy to use on Windows
• Work closely with Design, Infrastructure, and Data Teams to create a browser experience that feels native to Windows
• Tackle challenges like performance optimization, memory management, and compatibility to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure Swift on Windows browser
• 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 Chromium, Swift and our development environment across Mac and Windows
• Have shipped a few bug fixes and features across our codebase
• Have pair programmed with a large portion of the engineering team
• Have owned building numerous core features of Dia on Windows
• Be a primary point of contact for bugs and product iterations within core parts of our Windows application
• Be involved in product discussions about certain product surface areas within Dia as a whole
• Be involved in weekly engineering discussions about our architecture, how we do code review, code style, and more
• Be regularly posting feedback about using the browser in our #dogfooding channel
• Be contributing to on-call rotations and jumping into incidents to support the team
• Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company
• Be leading projects from conception to production launch
• Be mentoring and pair programming with newer engineers to help them get spun up on the codebase

Benefits

• With our flexible compensation model, employees have the ability to choose the cash-to-equity ratio that best suits their individual needs. Every offer we extend includes three options: a salary-optimized offer, an equity-optimized offer, and a balanced offer
• The annual salary range for this role is $240,000-300,000 USD . The actual salary range offered will vary based on experience level and interview performance
• Comprehensive benefits package with employee medical, dental, and vision - we cover 100% of premiums for employees, and up to 95% for dependents
• 401k plan
• Flexible vacation policy - on average, our team members take between 15-20 vacation days a year, plus federal holidays (holidays vary by location)
• Remote-friendly working environment - our core working hours are 11 AM-2 PM Eastern Time
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• $1,500 USD home office stipend
• Employees based in the US also receive additional services like free annual memberships to One Medical (where available), Talkspace, Teladoc, and HealthAdvocate