Software Engineer, Chromium (Contractor)

About The Browser Company

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.

The Browser Company is a well-funded, ambitious startup of close to 100 people (and growing!) who are passionate about building great products. We are a remote-first, distributed team, with the option to work from office in Brooklyn, 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.

About The Role

As a Chromium Engineer on the Product Team, your contributions will be at the core of building Dia. By collaborating with various teams across the company, you’ll help unlock the full potential of the Chromium ecosystem and enable the team to build first-of-its-kind features into the browser. We’re looking for someone who is product-minded, deeply curious, and excited to define new ways in which we interact with LLMs on a daily basis.

About Our App Architecture

Our team took a unique approach to building Arc and Dia — we packaged Chromium as an SDK and wrapped our Swift code around it. Our Swift code base is shared across MacOS, Windows, iOS and Android.

Overall You Will

• Design and spearhead projects for improving Chromium architecture and building new features in partnership with Product Engineers.
• Participate in the Chromium engineering on-call rotation, helping the team stay up to date with upstream changes, responding to incidents, and supporting major Chromium upgrades and releases.
• Increase the engineering team’s iteration speed by improving our Chromium codebase with security and infrastructure updates.
• Advise and direct fellow engineers on the architecture and capabilities of Chromium.
• Create new APIs and optimize existing ones that allow for a seamless integration with our product code base.
• Interact with the broader Chromium community, including collaborating with core contributors as needs arise.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of production-level coding experience, including at least 5 years working directly with C++ and hands-on experience with Chromium development.
• You’re flexible and interested in working across our entire tech stack, including learning Swift.
• You have experience independently running critical projects or initiatives with minimal guidance.
• You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles.
• We’re primarily focused on hiring in North American time zones and require that folks have 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone.

Compensation

• Employment Type: Contract
• Location Type: Remote
• Compensation: $120-150/hr dependent on experience.