Staff Fullstack Engineer

The Opportunity

The Firefox team is a community of engineers who care deeply about delivering the fastest, friendliest, most usable browser possible. We are responsible for making the things you see in the browser work securely, quickly, and well!

You will be responsible for all things search-related for our Firefox browser to connect our users with the right content, as easily as possible, no matter what they are looking for.

Our team is geographically-distributed, and working in the open is the norm. We contribute to the code driving the Firefox browser on a number of desktop platforms – Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Do you enjoy making people delighted with solutions to their problems? Do you like to collaborate with designers to implement new interfaces? Are you interested in learning how to write performant, secure code, and deliver it to hundreds of millions of people? If so, we’d love to hear from you.  Feel good about your work again! Pursue your future while working to protect the future of the internet for everyone, everywhere.

What is a Staff Software Engineer?

A Staff Software Engineer is the next level up from a Senior Software Engineer. At Mozilla this role can vary, but typically a staff engineer supports an engineering team, providing technical leadership, building cross-team relationships, and helping the team deliver on their objectives.

What You’ll Get To Do

• Write code and tests, build prototypes, tackle problems with no clear solution, collaborate with other designers and engineers to make the web a better place.
• Learn about a wide variety of problems and solutions across a large, mature codebase.
• Build relationships and partner with other teams to facilitate the work of your team.
• Help level-up the skills of your fellow engineers through code reviews, giving talks, and/or writing documentation.
• Promote and maintain high standards of code-quality, focusing on performance, testing, security, usability, accessibility and maintainability.
• Work with driven, committed team members to bring the open web to people around the world.
• Provide technical guidance to the engineering team through mentoring and sponsorship.
• Contribute to improving engineering practices and procedures.

What You Bring

• You have a background in shipping high quality software.
• Prior experience as a tech lead or similar role.
• 5+ years working experience with JavaScript.
• Coding, reading and understanding HTML, and CSS.
• Proficient understanding of SQL and Databases
• Interest in and ability to work with a distributed team (requires good asynchronous written communication skills as well as good verbal communication skills).
• Happy to provide and receive constructive feedback; when you see something that can be improved, you act on it.
• Ability to build consensus on sophisticated issues, through your empathy, internal credibility and visibility.
• Know how to approach an existing codebase and improve its architecture through small, planned interventions.
• Systems thinking; an ability to understand how multiple pieces of complex systems relate to each other.
• Unafraid of asking questions and proposing new ideas if you think they will make a positive impact.
• A love of helping your colleagues grow and get better at what they do.

Bonus Points

• Experience with C++ and/or Rust
• Understanding of Model-View-Controller and Component Based frontend architectures.