Engineering Manager

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.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager on the Swift Toolchain team, you will be managing a highly driven and creative team of software engineers and technical leaders.

Our Swift Toolchain team works on Swift and LLVM, creating the tools that allows us to ship features to hundreds of thousands of Arc Members quickly and safely. Some of the current and upcoming projects our team is working on includes improving Swift on Windows and Android (see more on our Swift interoperability work here), and implementing new Swift features that are helpful for both The Browser Company and the Swift community at large. The Browser Company is making a huge bet on Swift and, in doing so, changing how browsers and cross-platform apps are built forever– but we’ll need your help to get there! You’ll foster collaboration on Swift across companies, helping shepherd changes through committees, and influence the overall Swift ecosystem.

Our Management Philosophy

Engineering Managers at Browser Company are hands-on technical leaders who build high-performing and psychologically-safe teams with a diverse group of individuals. You’ll work closely with your team to make product decisions, prioritize work, ship features, and promote an engineering culture of knowledge sharing and mentorship. You’ll lead work-streams across several projects while also jumping in to help solve technical problems or handle incidents. Engineering Managers follow the same onboarding pathway as an IC engineer and progressively take on more management responsibility as they ramp up.

Overall you will...

• After initial onboarding, manage a team of 4 engineers, ensuring their growth, development, and team health.

• Promote an engineering culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration.

• Partner with engineers across various product teams to make decisions around technical strategy to power future product features.

• Set goals and priorities that contribute directly to company level objectives.

• Work closely with our developer experience team to ensure that product engineers can quickly build, debug, and ship features across iOS, macOS, Windows, and Android.

• Ensure efficient product development cycles by treating developer velocity as a product, finding and fixing issues in the appropriate layer of the system.

• Invest in observability, tooling, stability, processes and performance alongside building new systems.

• Contribute to the LLVM and Swift project’s health with the changes and work to improve that project for the larger community outside of the Browser Company.

• Contribute to the broader engineering organization in terms of creating processes, recruiting, and onboarding.

Within 1 month you will...

• Go through IC engineering onboarding - get to know the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy

• Work side-by-side with other engineers on the team, fixing bugs and ship code improvements to production

• Receive a number of onboarding presentations on how we give each other feedback, the phases a startup goes through, our technical strategy, workplace culture, and more

• Get familiar with Chromium, Swift and our development environment across Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.

• Get familiar with our tooling, data pipelines and understanding the current state of performance and reliability.

• Ship features to production with the guidance of other engineers

• Get familiar with the pace and cadence at which we ship

Within 3 months you will...

• Have engineers on the team reporting directly to you

• Made contributions to our codebase

• Be the point of contact for a work stream or initiative

• Be involved in weekly engineering discussions about our architecture, how we do code review, code style, and more

• Be regularly posting feedback about using Arc in our #dogfooding channel

• Be mentoring and pair programming with newer engineers to help them get spun up on the codebase

Within 6 months you will...

• Be leading execution for your team, ensuring the teams is in sync and shipping at a good pace

• Be trained and interviewing candidates for roles at The Browser Company

• Have collaborated with individuals on your team to make growth plans and goals.

• Be mentoring engineers on your team and across the org on what rapid and efficient execution looks like

• Be giving feedback to engineers and designers in your team on how they can improve their code quality, prototyping cadence, and time to ship

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience with Swift, native application codebases, API design, compilers, programming language development, or improving the software development experience for engineers. Experience with a compiler or LLVM codebase or Swift source code is preferred but not required.

• 3+ years of experience in people management, including hands on technical leadership.

• Exposure to working on large scale open source projects as an external stakeholder (preferably, a major open source project like PHP, Hack, LLVM, Swift, WebKit, Chromium, Firefox) and a desire to continuously foster positive relationships with an open source developer community.

• You’re passionate about building tools and systems that make other engineers more productive and strive to make them elegant and maintainable.

• You have a strong track record of coaching and mentoring senior engineers, helping them improve their skills and grow their careers.

• You have expertise in tech leading critical projects and initiatives within your team and organization and know how to drive execution and productive pace.

• You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles.

• Most of our team are based in North American time zones and require that folks have 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone.

• You resonate with our company values and can continue to scale your team with these in mind.

Compensation and Benefits

💰 With our flexible compensation model, employees have the ability to choose the cash-to-equity ratio that best suits their individual needs. Every offer we extend includes three options: a salary-optimized offer, an equity-optimized offer, and a balanced offer.

The annual salary range for this role is $225,000-320,000 USD. The actual salary range offered will vary based on experience level and interview performance.

🧘🏻‍♀️ In addition to a competitive salary and equity package, we provide every employee with the following benefits:

• comprehensive benefits package with employee medical, dental, and vision. We cover 100% of premiums for employees, 90% for dependents

• 401k plan

• flexible vacation policy - on average, our team members take between 15-20 vacation days a year, plus federal holidays (holidays vary by location)

• remote-friendly working environment - our core working hours are 11 AM-2 PM Eastern Time

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave

• $1,500 USD home office stipend

• Employees based in the US also receive additional services like free annual memberships to One Medical (where available), Talkspace, Teladoc, and HealthAdvocate

The Browser Company is a well-funded, ambitious startup of about 85 people (and growing!) who are passionate about building great products. We are a remote-first, distributed team, with the option to work in office in 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.