Senior Software Engineer, MDN (Fixed Term Contract)
- Team:
- ProdOps
- Locations:
- Remote UK, Remote Germany
- Maintaining and improving the MDN platform.
- Developing new features and owning them from local development to production.
- Enhancing MDN's build system to significantly reduce deployment times.
- Collaborating with our content team to enhance the MDN authoring experience.
- Refactoring our front-end client and SSR pipeline.
- Simplifying the integration of MDN data into other products.
- Work on our premium product, MDN Plus, to maintain and develop new functionality.
- Working with our partners from Google and Microsoft on functionality that we develop together.
- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent years of experience.
- A minimum of 5 years of software development experience.
- Strong fundamentals in software engineering, including modularity, abstraction, data structures, and algorithms.
- Extensive experience with HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Web APIs.
- Experience with Rust (or a similar compiled language).
- Extensive experience in both frontend and backend web development, with a preference for experience on high-traffic websites.
- Good knowledge of developing continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) workflows, particularly using GitHub Actions.
- Full-stack mentality, you care about building, deploying and running applications.
- The ability to work effectively on a remote, geographically distributed team.
- Experience in application/systems programming (Linux/MacOS/Windows).
- Experience working within open source projects.
Hiring Ranges:
Why Mozilla?
At Mozilla, we’re serving humanity—by maintaining a safe, open internet—while also helping the individual humans employed here to reach their personal and professional goals. With a relatively small team serving hundreds of millions of people, a culture of exploration, and a commitment to mentorship, opportunities abound to learn and grow at Mozilla.
Our values drive our actions
- Purpose is built into our work, with our mission driving every decision
- We challenge assumptions, the status quo, ourselves, and each other
- We are transparent: in our code, our business partnerships, and our everyday interactions
- We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and with perspectives different from our own
- We pair purpose with performance and put people ahead of profit
Our impact is global
- 1000+ paid staff from over 30 countries
- Thousands of volunteer contributors across six continents
- 2 global offices: Berlin and Toronto
- 9 coworking space locations: San Francisco, San Mateo, London, Paris, Portland, Tulsa, Vancouver, Chicago, and Bellevue
- Hundreds of home offices globally
Our benefits are world-class
- Flexible work environment (majority of Mozillians work remotely)
- Industry-leading paid parental leave (up to 26 weeks of fully paid leave for childbearing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-childbearing parents)
- Reimbursement for professional development (up to $3,000/year)
- A work setup including the latest hardware and software of your choice