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DuckDuckGo · 1 month ago

Engineering Director, Browser Platform

United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$244K/yr - $244K/yr

10+ years exp

DuckDuckGo is an online protection company with a mission to raise the standard of trust online. The Engineering Director for the Browser Platform will lead the team responsible for building and evolving the core web platform for their private browsers, ensuring they are fast, stable, and private by design.

InternetPrivacySearch Engine

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Lead the team that builds and evolves the core web platform powering our private browsers on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android

Define the architecture that enables product teams to deliver innovative features with confidence, while reducing fragmentation and breakage across platforms

Collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through post-mortem

Wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics and impact

Qualification

C++ developmentLeadership experienceTechnical team managementBrowser developmentMobile software developmentModern programming languagesProject managementCollaboration skillsProblem-solving skills

Required

Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through post-mortem

Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics and impact

10+ years experience leading teams of technically strong developers working on large, complex consumer-facing products, desktop in particular

Proven leadership experience across multiple consumer-facing products — you've made critical decisions that have broad, positive, and cascading impacts

4+ years experience in senior leadership roles (Director, VP) including people management, coaching, and mentoring experience

Proven experience of leading technical teams through periods of rapid growth and scaling

Direct experience with browsers - Chromium, WebKit, or WebView development

Recent experience defining and driving technical work end-to-end on large-scale (modern C++14 or more recent) C++ codebases

Experience with other modern languages (C#, Swift, Kotlin, Rust)

Experience developing software for Mobile platforms or Desktop (Android/iOS/Windows)