Role Description

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 JavaScript, 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

• Design and build software capable of reaching millions of daily users.

• 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 – be an active participant in our culture through mentorship, interviewing, and involvement in new initiatives.

• Support fellow colleagues through feedback, code reviews, and advancement of internal tools and processes.

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.

• 2+ years of software engineering and/or work-related industry experience.

• Previous 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 using front-end technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML5, CSS3 as well as backend (Python, Node.js)

• Ability to handle full-stack projects and build a minimum working product quickly.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 front-end.

• In-depth knowledge of API and networking patterns, including RESTful services and modern asynchronous communication techniques, to ensure seamless data exchange and integration between front-end applications and back-end services.

Compensation

Canada Pay Range

$134,300—$181,700 CAD