Staff Software Engineer, Swift

Hi, we're The Browser Company 👋 and we're building a better way to use the internet.

Browsers are unique in that they are one of the only pieces of software that you share with your parents as well as your kids. Which makes sense, they're our doorway to the most important things — through them we socialize with loved ones, work on our passion projects, and explore our curiosities. But on their own, they don’t actually do a whole lot, they’re kind of just there. They don’t help us organize our messy lives or make it easier to compose our ideas. We believe that the browser could do so much more — it can empower and support the amazing things we do on the internet. That’s why we’re building one: a browser that can help us grow, create, and stay curious.

To accomplish this lofty task, we’re building a diverse team of people from different backgrounds and experiences. This isn’t optional, it’s crucial to our mission, as we need a wide range of perspectives to challenge our assumptions and shape our browser through a bold, creative lens. With that in mind, we especially encourage women, people of color, and others from historically marginalized groups to apply.

Building a web browser is an extraordinary technical and product undertaking. As a Staff Product Engineer on our team, you will solve unique architectural and systems challenges. You'll design sleek and thoughtful solutions to complex problems. And, you'll contribute to the world's next most influential piece of software.

We're looking for a Product Engineer with extensive experience in application development. In this role, you'll work closely with our Design and Membership teams to make product architecture decisions and implement core browser features.

Overall you will...

• Work with our Design and Membership teams to decide product experiments and adjustments to the browser

• Pair-program with designers to prototype and explore new and interesting interaction models

• Implement custom native user interfaces in Swift

• Optimize UI and application code for performance, quality, and maintainability

• Scope, architect, and implement large product initiatives including UI, logic, networking, and persistence components

Within 1 month you will...

• Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy

• Receive a number of onboarding presentation on how we give each other feedback, the phases a startup goes through, our technical strategy, and more

• Get familiar with Chromium, Swift and our development environment across Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android

• Have shipped a few bug fixes and features across our codebase

• Have pair programmed with a large portion of the engineering team

Within 3 months you will...

• Have worked on 5+ projects across the codebase, each with a different set of engineers and designers

• Be the point of contact for bugs and product iterations of a few product surface areas

• Be involved in product discussions about certain product surface areas

• Be involved in weekly engineering discussions about our architecture, how we do code review, code style, and more

• Be regularly posting feedback about using the browser in our #dogfooding channel

• Be contributing to on-call rotations and jumping into incidents to support the team.

Within 6 months you will...

• Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company

• Be familiar with some C++ and how we interact with the underlying browser engine

• Be adjusting our terraform config to deploy new infrastructure or update our build pipelines

• Be leading projects from conception to production launch

• Be mentoring and pair programming with newer engineers to help them get spun up on the codebase

• 6+ year of experience developing high-craft software products on iOS/macOS, preferably in Swift

• You’ve successfully led and delivered critical technical projects or initiatives, driving meaningful impact within your team or organization.

• You’re comfortable working on large, complex codebases and have the problem-solving skills to navigate ambiguity.

• You’re product-minded and deeply motivated by creating user-driven experiences that solve real problems.

• You take action and learn quickly, iterating on code, systems, and processes to improve and refine what you build. Failing fast and learning fast excites you.

• You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles.

• Most of our team are based in North American time zones and require that folks have 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone.

💰 With our flexible compensation model, employees have the ability to choose the cash-to-equity ratio that best suits their individual needs. Every offer we extend includes three options: a salary-optimized offer, an equity-optimized offer, and a balanced offer.

The annual salary range for this role is $225,000-275,000 USD. The actual salary range offered will vary based on experience level and interview performance.

🧘🏻‍♀️ In addition to a competitive salary and equity package, we provide every employee with the following benefits:

• comprehensive benefits package with employee medical, dental, and vision. We cover 100% of premiums for employees, 90% for dependents

• 401k plan

• flexible vacation policy - on average, our team members take between 15-20 vacation days a year, plus federal holidays (holidays vary by location)

• remote-friendly working environment - our core working hours are 11 AM-2 PM Eastern Time

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave

• $1,500 USD home office stipend

• Employees based in the US also receive additional services like free annual memberships to One Medical (where available), Talkspace, Teladoc, and HealthAdvocate

The Browser Company is a well-funded, ambitious startup of about 85 people (and growing!) who are passionate about building great products. We are a remote-first, distributed team, with the option to work in office in New York. We strongly support diversity and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. 

🚙 To read more about what we value as a company, check out Notes on Roadtrips on our blog.