Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join The Browser Company and become a Staff Product Engineer, contributing to the development of a groundbreaking web browser. You will collaborate with design and membership teams, making key product architecture decisions and implementing core browser features. This role demands extensive application development experience and involves solving complex architectural and systems challenges. You will work on a diverse team, contributing to a product that aims to empower users. The company offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including flexible compensation, comprehensive health insurance, paid parental leave, and a remote-friendly work environment.

Requirements

• 6+ year of experience developing high-craft software products on iOS/macOS, preferably in Swift
• You’ve successfully led and delivered critical technical projects or initiatives, driving meaningful impact within your team or organization
• You’re comfortable working on large, complex codebases and have the problem-solving skills to navigate ambiguity
• You’re product-minded and deeply motivated by creating user-driven experiences that solve real problems
• You take action and learn quickly, iterating on code, systems, and processes to improve and refine what you build. Failing fast and learning fast excites you
• You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles
• Most of our team are based in North American time zones and require that folks have 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone

Responsibilities

• Work with our Design and Membership teams to decide product experiments and adjustments to the browser
• Pair-program with designers to prototype and explore new and interesting interaction models
• Implement custom native user interfaces in Swift
• Optimize UI and application code for performance, quality, and maintainability
• Scope, architect, and implement large product initiatives including UI, logic, networking, and persistence components
• 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, Windows, iOS, and Android
• Have shipped a few bug fixes and features across our codebase
• Have pair programmed with a large portion of the engineering team
• Have worked on 5+ projects across the codebase, each with a different set of engineers and designers
• Be the point of contact for bugs and product iterations of a few product surface areas
• Be involved in product discussions about certain product surface areas
• 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 familiar with some C++ and how we interact with the underlying browser engine
• Be adjusting our terraform config to deploy new infrastructure or update our build pipelines
• 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 $225,000-275,000 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, 90% 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