Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join The Browser Company, a startup building a better internet experience, as a Product Engineer for Windows. You'll be responsible for bringing Dia, their second browser product, to life for Windows users, ensuring a polished and intuitive experience. This role involves leading UI development, contributing to product decisions, collaborating with other teams, and solving complex technical challenges. You'll be part of a diverse team, working remotely with the option to work from their Brooklyn office. The company offers a competitive salary and equity package, comprehensive benefits, flexible vacation policy, remote-friendly environment, parental leave, and a home office stipend.

Requirements

• Deep Windows UI Expertise: You have 7+ years of 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
• Strong Technical Skills: Proficiency in C++ or similar languages, with a focus on UI craft and desktop app experience
• Attention to Detail: You care about the small things that make a product feel polished, from pixel-perfect UI to smooth animations
• User-Centric Mindset: You think about how your work impacts the end user and strive to create intuitive, delightful experiences
• Collaborative Approach: You excited about the idea to share your knowledge of Windows UI design with others and learning from your teammates
• Timezone: You have at least 4 hours of overlap time with team members located in Eastern Time Zone

Responsibilities

• Build for Windows: Lead the UI development of Dia for Windows, ensuring it integrates seamlessly with the platform’s unique features and conventions
• Shape the Product: 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
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with Design, Infrastructure, and Data Teams to create a browser experience that feels native to Windows
• Solve Complex Problems: 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 $250,000-300,000 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
• Employees based in the US also receive additional services like free annual memberships to One Medical (where available), Talkspace, Teladoc, and HealthAdvocate
• The Browser Company is a well-funded, ambitious startup of close to 100 people (and growing!) who are passionate about building great products
• We are a remote-first, distributed team, with the option to work from office in Brooklyn, New York
• We strongly support diversity and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply
• To read more about what we value as a company, check out Notes on Roadtrips on our blog
• 1,500 USD home office stipend