Software Engineer

Summary

Join The Browser Company and become a Chromium Engineer on the Product Team, contributing to the development of Dia, a new browser. Collaborate with various teams to unlock the full potential of the Chromium ecosystem and build innovative features. Design and lead projects to improve Chromium architecture, participate in on-call rotation, enhance the codebase, advise fellow engineers, create APIs, and interact with the broader Chromium community. This role requires 8+ years of production-level coding experience, including 5+ years with C++ and hands-on Chromium development experience. The position is a full-time independent contractor (1099) with an hourly rate of $120-150, depending on experience. The Browser Company is a remote-first company with an office in Brooklyn, New York.

Requirements

• You have 8+ years of production-level coding experience, including at least 5 years working directly with C++ and hands-on experience with Chromium development
• 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

Responsibilities

• Design and spearhead projects for improving Chromium architecture and building new features in partnership with Product Engineers
• Participate in the Chromium engineering on-call rotation, helping the team stay up to date with upstream changes, responding to incidents, and supporting major Chromium upgrades and releases
• 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
• Interact with the broader Chromium community, including collaborating with core contributors as needs arise

Benefits

• This is a full-time independent contractor (1099) position
• Compensation for this role is $120-150/hr dependent on experience
• We are a remote-first, distributed team, with the option to work from office in Brooklyn, New York