Full-Stack Product Software Engineer, Search Platform
Dropbox
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Job Description
Role Description for Full-Stack Product Software Engineer, Search Platform
At Dropbox, we believe in simplifying the way people work together. We provide a range of innovative cloud-based solutions to empower individuals and businesses to share, access, and collaborate on their files seamlessly. Staff Engineers are pivotal in shaping our mission of building a more enlightened way of working where everyone can unleash their creative potential without constraints.
This team owns the Sharing experience across all our File Sync and Share surfaces. The Full-Stack Product Software Engineer will drive engineering planning, tech design, and execution for multiple sharing initiatives, to make it easy for Dropbox users to share content that will boost sender and receiver experience, and long-term engagement across platforms. This role offers a large impact on the business, simplifying the sender and receiver sharing experience to drive down churn and grow revenue.
Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here.
Responsibilities
- Designing and building scalable software to reach millions of daily users.
- Collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and analysts to understand user needs and develop products that meet those needs.
- Developing and executing short and long-term roadmaps, balancing business impact, user experience, and technical quality.
- Actively contributing to our team and company culture through mentorship, participation in interviews, and involvement in new initiatives.
- Supporting fellow engineers through feedback, code reviews, and improvement of internal tools and processes.
- Ensure continuous service operation by participating in the team's on-call rotation, including outside core collaboration hours on a periodic basis.
Requirements
- 5+ Years of Experience
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience
- Demonstrated success in developing and deploying large-scale web applications with a user-focused approach.
- Proficiency in building user-facing software and supporting web/desktop systems and libraries.
- Ability to handle full-stack projects and deliver minimum viable products efficiently.
Preferred Qualifications
- Contributions to open source projects or technical communities
- Full-Stack Development experience
- Technologies: MySQL, Python, Go, React, Typescript
Key skills/competency
- Full-stack development
- Scalable software design
- Web application deployment
- User-focused development
- Product collaboration
- Roadmap execution
- Mentorship
- Code review
- On-call support
- MySQL
- Python
- Go
- React
- Typescript
- System architecture
- Cloud-based solutions
How to Get Hired at Dropbox
- Research Dropbox's culture: Study their Virtual First model, AI integration, mission, and values on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume: Highlight full-stack development, scalable system design, and user-centric product experience for the Search Platform.
- Prepare for technical interviews: Focus on proficiency in Python, Go, React, Typescript, and MySQL, demonstrating problem-solving at scale.
- Showcase product impact: Emphasize past experiences where you improved user experience and drove business outcomes.
- Demonstrate collaborative leadership: Be ready to discuss mentorship, teamwork, and contributing to engineering best practices at Dropbox.
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