Front-End Engineer, Firefox

Why Mozilla?

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, and Pocket, a service for keeping up with the best content online. 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.

About This Team And Role

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!

Our team is geographically-distributed, and working in the open is the norm. 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.

What You’ll Do

• Build high quality user interfaces for Firefox with accessibility and usability in mind
• Write code and tests, build prototypes, tackle problems with no clear solution, collaborate with other designers and engineers to make the web a better place
• Learn about a wide variety of problems and solutions across a large, mature codebase
• Work with cross functional teams, building relationships and fostering collaboration to reach shared goals
• Level-up your skills through code reviews and writing documentation
• Promote and maintain high standards of code-quality, focusing on performance, testing, security, usability, accessibility and maintainability
• Work with driven, committed team members to bring the open web to people around the world
• Contribute to improving engineering practices and procedures

What You’ll Bring

• 2+ years experience as a software engineer
• You have a background in shipping high quality software
• 2+ years working experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Interest in and ability to work with a distributed team (requires good asynchronous written communication skills as well as good verbal communication skills)
• Happy to provide and receive constructive feedback
• Will contribute by asking questions and proposing new ideas
• A love of working with others collaboratively
• Commitment to our values: Welcoming differences, Being relationship-minded, Practicing responsible participation, Having grit

About Mozilla

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.