Staff Software Engineer, Windows Product

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 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 Dia — a 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 presentation 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 7+ 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

💰 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 $250,000-300,000 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, 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.