About the role
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!
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. Our focus is on implementing and fixing things in Firefox as well as helping other teams make it excellent for our users.
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.
What’s a Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla?
A Senior Software Engineer is the next level from a Software Engineer. At Mozilla, this role can vary, but is typically someone who is largely self directed after work is assigned and is advanced in their domain. They help team members get information they need to be successful while also being the go-to person for peer reviews in their domain. They have a solid understanding of the product strategy and can recommend solutions to critical issues when needed, assist junior engineers in risk management and escalation, and advocate for and implement changes that affect their team. A Senior Software Engineer actively seeks opinions and ideas from their team members, including those with varied experiences and perspectives to improve more collective results.
What you’ll do:
Build high quality user interfaces for Firefox with accessibility and usability in mind
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
Work with cross functional teams, building relationships and fostering collaboration to reach shared goals
Help to 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
Contribute to improving engineering practices and procedures
What you’ll bring:
4+ years experience as a software engineer
You have a background in shipping high quality software
3+ years working experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
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
Will contribute by asking questions and proposing new ideas
A love of working with others collaboratively
Commitment to our values:
Welcoming differences
Being relationship-minded
Practicing responsible participation
Having grit
What you’ll get:
Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
One-time home office stipend
Annual professional development budget
Quarterly well-being stipend
Considerable paid parental leave
Employee referral bonus program
Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)
About the company
Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser, and Pocket, a service for keeping up with the best content online. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people.