Front End Engineering Manager, Firefox Desktop
About The Position
The Firefox team is a community of engineers who care deeply about delivering the fastest, friendliest, most usable browser possible. We are responsible for making the things you see in the browser work securely, quickly, and well! Working in the open is the norm, and we contribute to the code driving the Firefox browser on a number of desktop platforms - Windows, Linux, and macOS. Our focus is on implementing and fixing things in Firefox as well as helping other teams make it excellent for our users. A Frontend Engineering Manager directs a team of geographically distributed engineers to constantly drive improvements to Firefox Desktop experience through innovations and enhancements to the browser user interface in Firefox. We need a leader who is dedicated to building exceptional teams, creating innovative solutions, delivering quality software, and influencing how the world uses the internet. Feel good about your work again! Pursue your future while working to protect the future of the internet for everyone, everywhere.
Requirements
- 4+ years leading engineers in a software development environment and working across multiple distributed teams.
- Software engineering background that empowers you to drive technical decisions within the team and engage with engineers at all levels of seniority to triage, prioritize and implement.
- Experience leading multiple concurrent projects.
- Previous experience working on frontend platform initiatives e.g. design systems and frontend architectural improvements.
- Track record of delivering front-end experiences to user-facing products
- Hands-on experience with web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS).
- Proven track record successfully leading and shipping sophisticated user facing experiences on time, using data to inform timelines.
- Strong communication and ability to develop positive relationships with others, regardless of their rank or role.
- Passion to resolve problems, manage risk, lead change, and facilitate collaborative decision-making.
- Experience effectively communicating with senior leadership and advocating for engineering priorities.
- Desire to grow and learn as a manager, grow and develop others, and get results through others rather than personal technical proficiency.
- Able to hire, mentor, empower, develop, and delegate to geographically distributed team members with different skills from your own.
Nice To Haves
- Fostering the use of AI in Frontend engineering teams.
- Experience working in open source environments.
Responsibilities
- Drive initiatives to deliver value to our users ensuring the software your team delivers is high quality, highly available, monitored, and maintainable.
- Help the team navigate trade-offs and drive alignment in a fast-paced field; balancing quick delivery with thoughtful, long-term approaches across a portfolio of user experiences in the browser.
- Communicate your team’s goals, the scope and risks of your projects, and own the delivery of initiatives on clear timelines.
- Identify, build and iterate on engineering processes that support a high performing team.
- Engage regularly 1-1 with your team to discuss both technical work and professional development; provide direct and honest feedback about their individual performances
- Ensure developers are properly supported and empowered throughout the developer lifecycle.
- Create an inclusive environment which engages and challenges your team members.
- Work collaboratively with many teams including Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Science.
Benefits
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
- Quarterly all-company wellness days
- 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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
