Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Desktop Developer Experience

Company Description

Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today.

Wouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots.

The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history.

Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.

Team Description

Our Engineering team is working to simplify the way people work together. They’re building a family of products that handle over a billion files a day for people around the world. With our broad mission and massive scale, there are countless opportunities to make an impact.

Role Description

Our strategy starts with our mission: how do we build the right set of products that can help our customers work in a more enlightened way? If the first big problem Dropbox solved was getting your files in the cloud, the new problem we’re solving is helping you organize your life.

In this role you will specialize in desktop platform development. The Desktop Developer Experience team builds core desktop technologies that enables product teams to create foreground experiences. The platform we built utilizes web technologies to render rich experience to our users on Mac, Linux, and Windows. As part of the team, you would be central to empowering our product engineers to quickly innovate on desktop.

Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here.

Please note, Dropbox is currently only authorized to hire candidates from the following provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.

Responsibilities

You will leverage technologies like Electron to accelerate desktop developmentYou will build a platform that can be leveraged by product engineers so that they can be as productive as possibleYou will write modular, secure, and well-tested codeYou will design and build software capable of reaching millions of daily users in Python, React, and TypescriptYou will ensure that our development environment is best in class by delivering improvements to internal tooling and direct partnership with our product platform teamsYou will work closely with customer support to respond quickly to issues for our users and solve those in a permanent and scalable wayYou will articulate a technical vision for a more enlightened way of working and work with multi-functional partners to deliver that visionYou will improve the team and company – you will be an active participant in our culture (mentorship, interviewing, and new initiatives)You will own relationships with other engineering teams and collaborate with other functions within Dropbox

Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.

Requirements

BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience10+ years of software engineering and/or work-related industry experienceExperience developing and shipping a large-scale web application with a user-empathetic mindsetExperience building user-facing software and supporting systems and libraries for the web and/or desktop

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with or willingness to learn the following coding languages: C/C++, Objective-C, Typescript, Python, Electron, Node, React, RustExperience with Desktop Application Development

Total Rewards

Canada Pay Range$194,700—$263,400 CAD Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, Latinx, Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, Women at Dropbox, ATX Diversity (based in Austin, Texas) and the Dropbox Empowerment Network (based in Dublin, Ireland).

Key Skills

• Python
• TypeScript