M
Front End Engineering Manager - Firefox Desktop
Mozilla
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
100% remote
Experience
Mid-level · 4+ years
Job description
Key details
- Drive initiatives to deliver value to users, ensuring software 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 team goals, project scope and risks, and own delivery of initiatives on clear timelines
- Identify, build, and iterate on engineering processes that support a high-performing team
- Engage regularly 1-1 with team members to discuss technical work and professional development, providing direct and honest feedback on individual performance
- Ensure developers are properly supported and empowered throughout the developer lifecycle
- Create an inclusive environment that engages and challenges team members
- Work collaboratively with many teams including Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Science
- Company mission
- 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
Primary stack
Core technologies
TypeScript
Benefits
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting
- Quarterly all-company wellness days
- 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)
Requirements & details
- 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
- Bonus points for fostering the use of AI in Frontend engineering teams
- Bonus points for experience working in open source environments
- JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
- TypeScript