Senior Software Engineer, Windows Product

Product Engineer For Windows

As a Product Engineer for Windows, you'll help bring Dia (our second browser product) to life for hundreds of thousands of Windows users, ensuring it feels as polished, intuitive, and delightful as it does on other platforms. With your user-design expertise and passion for a well-crafted Windows application, you'll guide the UI for Diaa first-of-its-kind browser with an AI-assistant built using Swift on Windows.

Overall You Will...

Build for Windows : Lead the UI development of Dia for Windows, ensuring it integrates seamlessly with the platform's unique features and conventions.

Shape the Product : Contribute as an early team member to decisions about architecture, user experience, and technical trade-offs, ensuring Dia is a joy to use on Windows.

Collaborate Across Teams : Work closely with Design, Infrastructure, and Data Teams to create a browser experience that feels native to Windows.

Solve Complex Problems : Tackle challenges like performance optimization, memory management, and compatibility to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure Swift on Windows browser.

Within 1 Month You Will...

Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy

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

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

Have shipped a few bug fixes and features across our codebase

Have pair programmed with a large portion of the engineering team

Within 3 Months You Will...

Have owned building numerous core features of Dia on Windows

Be a primary point of contact for bugs and product iterations within core parts of our Windows application

Be involved in product discussions about certain product surface areas within Dia as a whole

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

Be regularly posting feedback about using the browser in our #dogfooding channel

Be contributing to on-call rotations and jumping into incidents to support the team.

Within 6 Months You Will...

Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company

Be leading projects from conception to production launch

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

Qualifications

Deep Windows UI Expertise : You have 4+ years of experience building and shipping high-quality Windows applications, with a strong understanding of the platform's APIs, frameworks (XAML and WPF, UWP, or WinUI), and best practices.

Strong Technical Skills : Proficiency in C++ or similar languages, with a focus on UI craft and desktop app experience.

Attention to Detail : You care about the small things that make a product feel polished, from pixel-perfect UI to smooth animations.

User-Centric Mindset : You think about how your work impacts the end user and strive to create intuitive, delightful experiences.

Collaborative Approach : You excited about the idea to share your knowledge of Windows UI design with others and learning from your teammates.

Timezone : You have at least 4 hours of overlap time with team members located in Eastern Time Zone

Compensation And Benefits

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The annual salary range for this role is $225,000-275,000 USD . The actual salary range offered will vary based on experience level and interview performance.

comprehensive benefits package with employee medical, dental, and vision - we cover 100% of premiums for employees, and up to 95% 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 close to 100 people (and growing!) who are passionate about building great products. We are a remote-first, distributed team, with the option to work from office in Brooklyn, 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.