Engineer

Description:

• Mozilla seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Content Engineering team, working on backend systems powering New Tab features in Firefox. The role focuses on building high-quality backend services, improving user experience, collaborating across teams, and contributing to open-source development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build backend systems for recommendation and content services for Firefox New Tab

• Write code, tests, prototypes, and solve complex technical problems

• Collaborate across engineering and design to improve the web experience

• Contribute across a large open-source codebase

• Participate in code reviews, documentation, and mentoring

• Uphold strong code quality in performance, security, testing, accessibility, and maintainability

• Support improvement of engineering practices

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of software engineering experience

• 3+ years experience with NodeJS or Python

• Experience designing, shipping, and scaling software

• Knowledge of SQL, React, Cloud infrastructure, AWS, Docker, GraphQL, TypeScript, CI/CD (preferred)

Desired Characteristics:

• Strong written and asynchronous communication skills

• Enjoys collaboration and providing/receiving constructive feedback

• Curious, solution-oriented, and comfortable with distributed teams

• Interest in AI and privacy-preserving user value

• Alignment with Mozilla values: inclusivity, collaboration, responsible participation, grit

Additional Requirements:

• Commitment to open-source principles

• Accommodations available for applicants with disabilities

• Must be able to work remotely in Canada

• Strong focus on security and privacy in development