Front End Engineering Manager, Firefox Desktop
Lead Firefox Desktop frontend team to improve browser usability and performance
Direct a geographically distributed team of frontend engineers to drive improvements to the Firefox Desktop experience through innovations and enhancements. Focus on implementing and fixing features that make the browser work securely, quickly, and well across Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. Contribute to open-source software development in the open, collaborating with volunteer contributors worldwide to deliver a faster, friendlier, most...
Why This Role?
Work on open-source Firefox with direct impact on over 225 million monthly users worldwide
Key Responsibilities
- Direct a team of geographically distributed frontend engineers
- Drive improvements to Firefox Desktop experience through innovations and enhancements
- Implement and fix features for secure, fast, and reliable browser performance
- Collaborate with other teams to ensure Firefox excellence for users
- Contribute to open-source code for Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms
Requirements
- Experience managing frontend engineering teams
- Background in Firefox or browser desktop development
- Proficiency with open-source development practices
- Knowledge of Windows, Linux, and macOS desktop platforms
- Ability to work effectively with distributed, global teams
Required Skills
Indonesia Context
- Working Hours Overlap:
- Flexible — work your own hours
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;"> <div> <div>To learn the Hiring Ranges for this position, please select your location from the <strong>Apply Now</strong> dropdown menu.</div> <p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1;">To learn more about our Hiring Range System, please click this <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ylUe7Ou0EbsOtGRBtUv1sSld3lbZ4mrYzo59tEkSjY8/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>link.</strong></span></a></p> <p><strong>Why Mozilla?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute </span><strong>open-source</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms. </span></p> <p><strong>About this team and role:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Firefox team is a community of engineers who care deeply about delivering the fastest, friendliest, most usable browser possible. We are responsible for making the things you see in the browser work securely, quickly, and well! Working in the open is the norm, and we contribute to the code driving the Firefox browser on a number of desktop platforms - Windows, Linux, and macOS. Our focus is on implementing and fixing things in Firefox as well as helping other teams make it excellent for our users.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Frontend Engineering Manager directs a team of geographically distributed engineers to constantly drive improvements to Firefox Desktop experience through innovations and enhancements to the browser user interface in Firefox. We need a leader who is dedicated to building exceptional teams, creating innovative solutions, delivering quality software, and influencing how the world uses the internet.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Feel good about your work again! Pursue your future while working to protect the future of the internet for everyone, everywhere.</span></p> <p><strong>What you’ll do: </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Drive initiatives to deliver value to our users ensuring the software your team delivers is high quality, highly available, monitored, and maintainable.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Help the team navigate trade-offs and drive alignment in a fast-paced field; balancing quick delivery with thoughtful, long-term approaches across a portfolio of user experiences in the browser.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Communicate your team’s goals, the scope and risks of your projects, and own the delivery of initiatives on clear timelines.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identify, build and iterate on engineering processes that support a high performing team. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Engage regularly 1-1 with your team to discuss both technical work and professional development; provide direct and honest feedback about their individual performances</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensure developers are properly supported and empowered throughout the developer lifecycle.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Create an inclusive environment which engages and challenges your team members. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work collaboratively with many teams including Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Science.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll bring: </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">4+ years leading engineers in a software development environment and working across multiple distributed teams.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Software engineering background that empowers you to drive technical decisions within the team and engage with engineers at all levels of seniority to triage, prioritize and implement.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience leading multiple concurrent projects.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Previous experience working on frontend platform initiatives e.g. design systems and frontend architectural improvements.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Track record of delivering front-end experiences to user-facing products</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hands-on experience with web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS).</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proven track record successfully leading and shipping sophisticated user facing experiences on time, using data to inform timelines. .</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strong communication and ability to develop positive relationships with others, regardless of their rank or role.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Passion to resolve problems, manage risk, lead change, and facilitate collaborative decision-making.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience effectively communicating with senior leadership and advocating for engineering priorities.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Desire to grow and learn as a manager, grow and develop others, and get results through others rather than personal technical proficiency.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Able to hire, mentor, empower, develop, and delegate to geographically distributed team members with different skills from your own.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Commitment to our values:</span></li> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcoming differences</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Being relationship-minded</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Practicing responsible participation</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Having grit</span></li> </ul> </ul> <p><strong>Bonus points for:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fostering the use of AI in Frontend engineering teams.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience working in open source environments.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll get:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">One-time home office stipend</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Annual professional development budget</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quarterly well-being stipend</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Considerable paid parental leave</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Employee referral bonus program</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>About Mozilla </strong></p> <p>Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.</p> <p><strong>Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging</strong></p> <p>Mozilla understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge 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 certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientation<span style="color: #003366;">s, </span>gender identities, and expressions.</p> <p>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 <a class="external-link" href="mailto:hiringaccommodation@mozilla.com">hiringaccommodation@mozilla.com</a> to request accommodation.</p> <p>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. Mozilla will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.</p> <p>Group: D</p> <p>#LI-DNI</p> <p>Req ID: R3136</p> </div> </div>
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