Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mozilla is a non-profit-backed technology company focused on building an open and accessible internet, including the Firefox browser. The Front End Engineering Manager will lead a geographically distributed engineering team responsible for improving the Firefox Desktop user interface, delivering high-quality software, and coordinating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Drive initiatives to deliver value to our users ensuring the software your team delivers is high quality, highly available, monitored, and maintainable
- 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
- Communicate your team’s goals, the scope and risks of your projects, and own the delivery of initiatives on clear timelines
- Identify, build and iterate on engineering processes that support a high performing team
- Engage regularly 1-1 with your team to discuss both technical work and professional development; provide direct and honest feedback about their individual performances
- Ensure developers are properly supported and empowered throughout the developer lifecycle
- Create an inclusive environment which engages and challenges your team members
- Work collaboratively with many teams including Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Science
Skills
- 4+ years leading engineers in a software development environment and working across multiple distributed teams
- 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
- Experience leading multiple concurrent projects
- Previous experience working on frontend platform initiatives e.g. design systems and frontend architectural improvements
- Track record of delivering front-end experiences to user-facing products
- Hands-on experience with web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS)
- Proven track record successfully leading and shipping sophisticated user facing experiences on time, using data to inform timelines
- Strong communication and ability to develop positive relationships with others, regardless of their rank or role
- Passion to resolve problems, manage risk, lead change, and facilitate collaborative decision-making
- Experience effectively communicating with senior leadership and advocating for engineering priorities
- Desire to grow and learn as a manager, grow and develop others, and get results through others rather than personal technical proficiency
- Able to hire, mentor, empower, develop, and delegate to geographically distributed team members with different skills from your own
- Commitment to our values:
- Welcoming differences
- Being relationship-minded
- Practicing responsible participation
- Having grit
- Fostering the use of AI in Frontend engineering teams
- Experience working in open source environments
Benefits
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
- Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
- Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
- One-time home office stipend
- Annual professional development budget
- Quarterly well-being stipend
- Considerable paid parental leave
- Employee referral bonus program
- Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)
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