Our Product Engineers are at the forefront of crafting the seamless, intuitive user interfaces that millions rely on for their data interaction and collaboration needs. Leveraging advanced knowledge in languages and frameworks like TypeScript, CSS and HTML, we ensure Dropbox's platforms are responsive, accessible, and deliver exceptional user experiences. Through their commitment to optimization and innovation, they play a crucial role in evolving Dropbox's offerings, making digital storage and collaboration more efficient and user-friendly on a global scale.
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Responsibilities- Articulate a technical vision for a more enlightened way of working and collaborate with multi-functional partners to deliver that vision.
- Write full-stack code, leading by example and understanding root causes alongside junior engineers.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and analysts to deeply understand the needs of our users and build a product that serves those needs.
- Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps, making effective tradeoffs between business impact, user experience, and a high-quality technical foundation.
- Improve the team and company culture through mentorship, interviewing, and involvement in new initiatives.
- Own relationships with other engineering teams and collaborate with other functions within Dropbox.
Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.
Requirements- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering and/or work-related industry experience.
- Success developing and shipping a large-scale web application with a user-empathetic mindset.
- Skilled at building user-facing applications and supporting systems and libraries on web and/or desktop using frontend technologies such as TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS.
- Ability to work across the stack on projects and able to build a minimum working product quickly.
- Familiarity in using Git as a version control system to manage codebase changes and collaborate with other team members efficiently.
- Demonstrated experience with NodeJS, including the development of server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the frontend.
- Experience in developing desktop applications using Electron, showcasing the ability to bridge web technologies with native desktop environments for cross-platform development.
- In-depth knowledge of API and networking patterns, including RESTful services and modern asynchronous communication techniques, to ensure seamless data exchange and integration between frontend applications and backend services.
