Senior Software Engineer
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Job description
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll bring a passion for crafting beautiful, accessible experiences to AMO. You'll work closely with designers and product managers to turn ideas into polished features, modernize the platform and its architecture, and see your work reach millions of people around the world.The Add-ons Engineering team builds and maintains AMO as a critical part of Firefox's customizability. Our responsibilities include:
- Frontend and full stack development: React/TypeScript frontends, Django backend, MySQL datastore.
- Platform reliability: deployments, monitoring, and incident response on Google Cloud.
- Feature development: submission flows, trust and safety signals, and DevHub modernization.
- Open collaboration: We work in the open, with contributions from Mozilla staff and community members.
What you'll do:
- Design, build, and refine frontend experiences in AMO and DevHub, ensuring they are fast, accessible, and user-friendly.
- Contribute to modernization and improvements in architecture and maintainability.
- Help keep the platform safe and trustworthy, with attention to security and user trust.
- Step in to resolve issues impacting users and developers, from small bugs to larger incidents.
- Collaborate with designers, product managers, QA, and community contributors to deliver end-to-end improvements.
- Contribute in the open through pull requests, code reviews, and discussions., * Experience with relational databases such as MySQL.
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud or similar).
- Contributions to open source projects.
- Other front end stacks such as Jinja2.
- Experience mentoring or supporting junior developers.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional experience building modern web applications.
- Proficiency in React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, with strong debugging and testing skills.
- Familiarity with Python/Django or similar backend frameworks.
- Understanding of web security principles and practices.
- Awareness of accessibility, responsive design, and API integration.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills in a distributed team environment.
- Comfortable working in an environment that includes contributions from both staff and the open-source community.
- Commitment to our values:
- Welcoming differences
- Being relationship-minded
- Practicing responsible participation
- Having grit
Benefits & conditions
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
- Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
- Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
- One-time home office stipend
- Annual professional development budget
- Quarterly well-being stipend
- Considerable paid parental leave
- Employee referral bonus program
- Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)
About Mozilla
Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.