Senior Frontend Product Software Engineer

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 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.

Responsibilities

• Own projects end to end, starting with data discovery, design, implementation, and deployment.
• Develop customer-centric prototypes for new product explorations.
• Manage and lead a small team of engineers and grow the team as needed.
• Proactively communicate your learnings and progress to your team and leadership.
• Establish and maintain 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.

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 or higher in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering and/or work-related industry experience
• Success developing and shipping a large-scale web application with a user-empathetic mindset.
• Skilled at building user-facing applications and supporting systems and libraries on web and/or desktop using front-end technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML5, CSS3.
• Ability to work across the stack on projects and able to build a minimum working product quickly.

• Familiarity in using Git as a version control system to manage codebase changes and collaborate with other team members efficiently.
• Demonstrated experience with NodeJS, including the development of server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
• Experience in developing desktop applications using Electron, showcasing the ability to bridge web technologies with native desktop environments for cross-platform development.
• In-depth knowledge of API and networking patterns, including RESTful services and modern asynchronous communication techniques, to ensure seamless data exchange and integration between front-end applications and back-end services.
• Skilled in the build and deployment processes, with a keen understanding of CI/CD principles to automate and improve development and release workflows.