Senior Frontend Product Software Engineer

Role Description

Our Product Engineers are at the forefront of crafting the seamless, intuitive user interfaces that millions rely on for their data interaction and collaboration needs. Leveraging advanced knowledge in languages and frameworks like JavaScript, CSS and HTML, we ensure Dropbox's platforms are responsive, accessible, and deliver exceptional user experiences. Through their commitment to optimization and innovation, they play a crucial role in evolving Dropbox's offerings, making digital storage and collaboration more efficient and user-friendly on a global scale.

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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.

On-call work may be necessary occasionally to help address bugs, outages, or other operational issues, with the goal of maintaining a stable and high-quality experience for our customers.

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.

Compensation

Dropbox applies increased tax deductible costs to remuneration earned by certain qualifying employees (to the extent an employee will be involved in the creation of the software as an “author”) for the transfer of copyrights, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Income Tax Act.