Senior Software Engineer, MDN (Fixed Term Contract)

Senior Software Engineer, MDN (Fixed Term Contract)

Team : ProdOps

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Locations : Remote UK, Remote Germany

About the Project

The MDN Web Docs (https : / / developer.mozilla.org) engineering team is looking for an experienced software engineer to help us maintain and evolve the open-source platform (https : / / github.

com / mdn) that powers a website loved by millions of developers worldwide and used monthly by 17M of them.

We’re a small, friendly and dedicated group of software engineers, and we’re not just looking for someone with the desired technical skills, but also for someone who wants to build and maintain a friendly and collaborative culture as much as we do.

This is a 12-month fixed term contract position.

What You'll Get To Do

We're investing in MDN's platform, transforming it to support a faster pace of experimentation with new features and overall improvement.

A major focus of this effort is refactoring our codebase to enhance flexibility and performance. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the team to bring this vision to fruition.

You'll work in close partnership with team members across various disciplines, including technical writers, UX designers, product managers, and marketers.

Additionally, we encourage you to share your expertise with the team and the dedicated volunteers who contribute to MDN, fostering a collaborative learning environment.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla, your responsibilities will include :

• Maintaining and improving the MDN platform.
• Developing new features and owning them from local development to production.
• Enhancing MDN's build system to significantly reduce deployment times.
• Collaborating with our content team to enhance the MDN authoring experience.
• Refactoring our front-end client and SSR pipeline.
• Simplifying the integration of MDN data into other products.
• Working on our premium product, MDN Plus, to maintain and develop new functionality.
• Working with our partners from Google and Microsoft on functionality that we develop together.

Your Professional Profile

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent years of experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of software development experience.
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering, including modularity, abstraction, data structures, and algorithms.
• Extensive experience with HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Web APIs.
• Experience with Rust (or a similar compiled language).
• Extensive experience in both frontend and backend web development, with a preference for experience on high-traffic websites.
• Good knowledge of developing continuous integration and deployment (CI / CD) workflows, particularly using GitHub Actions.
• Full-stack mentality, you care about building, deploying and running applications.
• The ability to work effectively on a remote, geographically distributed team.

Bonus Points for

• Experience in application / systems programming (Linux / MacOS / Windows).
• Experience working within open source projects.

About Mozilla

When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of web users everywhere. Join us to work on the web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.

We’re not a normal tech company. The things we create prioritize people and their privacy over profits. We exist to make the internet a healthier, happier place for everyone.

Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

Mozilla believes in the value of diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge, and knows diversity, equity and inclusion are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission.

We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.

We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate.

Please contact us at [email protected] to request accommodation.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws.

Our impact is global

• 1000+ paid staff from over 30 countries
• Thousands of volunteer contributors across six continents
• 2 global offices : Berlin and Toronto
• 9 coworking space locations : San Francisco, San Mateo, London, Paris, Portland, Tulsa, Vancouver, Chicago, and Bellevue
• Hundreds of home offices globally

Our benefits are world-class

• Flexible work environment (majority of Mozillians work remotely)
• Industry-leading paid parental leave (up to 26 weeks of fully paid leave for childbearing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-childbearing parents)
• Reimbursement for professional development (up to $3,000 / year)
• A work setup including the latest hardware and software of your choice

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