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The Browser Company · 17 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer, Swift

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$225K/yr - $275K/yr

6+ years exp

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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

Qualification

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SwiftIOS/macOS developmentC++ChromiumPair programmingUI designApplication performance optimizationUser-driven experiencesTerraformMentoring

Required

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.

Benefits

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