Lead Engineer

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Mozilla

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browser • internet • software • mobile • web apps

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1998

👥 B2C

🔒 Cybersecurity

Description

• The Mozilla Foundation is a California nonprofit public-benefit organization. • Our mission is to ensure the internet remains a global public resource, open and accessible to all! • This includes making sure artificial intelligence (AI) and data driven technology are more trustworthy. • The Common Voice project seeks to build openly available data sets for training machine-learning driven voice technologies. • The Lead Engineer for Common Voice will be part of a team of three engineers working directly for the project. • You will work across the stack. • You will partner with the Product Manager and Designer to create technical content for PRDs. • You will line-manage 2 software engineers, helping them to grow and thrive in their roles. • You will be hands-on with the codebase - this is a small team, and you should still expect to help deliver features. • You will have primary responsibility for ensuring the security, logging, performance and accessibility of the platform. • You will collaborate with designers to build and deploy prototypes and experiments that test experience concepts.

Requirements

• Passion for developing high quality, high impact products, platforms and experiences. • At least 7+ years of progressively responsible professional experience in full stack web development in a product team or product-centric company. • Experience leading technical decision making processes and managing and mentoring others • An interest in voice technology and/or AI. • Fluency in HTML/CSS, Node.js, React, Python, MySQL and TypeScript • Experience with data access and pipeline work, including designing and improving infrastructure for ingesting, storing, and transforming data • Experience with highly scalable distributed systems hosted on cloud providers (e.g. Google Cloud Platform) • Infrastructure experience - eg with Kubernetes - a strong plus • Fluency in web application architecture, including data structures and microservices • The ability to translate wireframes, style guides and design direction into polished, production ready visual experiences. • A user-centred approach, with a keen interest in collaborating with and serving a community’s needs. Ideally, have worked on contributor or community participation technologies in the past, or have had substantial personal experience contributing to an open source project. • Awareness of the need for accessibility in implementation and a willingness to collaborate with designers to deliver inclusive experiences. • Very strong communication skills -- you communicate your opinions clearly and listen to others carefully. • Interest working in, and communicating with, multidisciplinary teams with different backgrounds and skillsets - you must have a deep respect for the different skills that people bring. • A willingness to learn and keep growing, both professionally and personally. • We welcome applicants from different geographies - willingness to partly overlap with European and African time zones would be helpful.

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance • Extended Sick Leave • Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Retirement Plan contributions • Paid Time Off: 20 days annual leave + sick days and your birthday • Company Holidays + Shutdown • Wellness budget • Professional Development budget • Top up program for Pregnancy and Parental leaves