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Backend Product Software Engineer, Desktop Experience

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Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
178K-240K Annually
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
178K-240K Annually

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 rich and intuitive foreground experiences that power AI features. 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.

Responsibilities

  • Architect develop and maintain a platform that can be leveraged by product engineers so that they can be as productive as possible.
  • Accelerate desktop development by leveraging technologies like Electron.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business challenges and translate them into technical requirements and robust solutions.
  • Design and build software capable of reaching millions of users in Python, Rust, React, and Typescript.
  • Write modular, secure, and well-tested code.
  • Ensure that our development environment is best in class by delivering improvements to internal tooling and direct partnership with our product platform teams.
  • Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing sessions, and provide mentorship to junior team members, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented culture.
  • 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

  • 6+ years of software engineering and/or work related industry experience
  • Previous success developing and shipping application platforms with a user-empathetic mindset
  • Strong coding experience in Python and Typescript
  • Skilled at building user-facing software and supporting systems and libraries for desktop
  • You can handle full-stack projects and are able to build a minimum working product quickly
  • Familiarity with project management tools and CI/CD pipelines

Preferred Qualifications

  • BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience
  • Experience working on Electron
  • Coding experience in Rust
  • Previous success in building and releasing developer platforms and APIs
  • Experience working with backend services
  • Experience with build technologies like Bazel

Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2

$177,500$240,100 USD

US Zone 3

$157,800$213,400 USD

Dropbox Colorado, USA Office

CO, United States

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