Senior Software Engineer, Accessibility

About the role

The Mozilla Corporation is seeking a skilled developer to join the Accessibility Team. This is a small, hard-working team that impacts the lives of users every day. The ideal candidate will contribute to the core Gecko web rendering engine, improving its architecture, stability, correctness, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Improve the architecture, stability, correctness and performance of the core Gecko accessibility engine.
• Debug and fix problems in our multi-process, multi-threaded codebase.
• Debug OS specific issues.
• Build excellent working relationships with engineers and organizational leaders on other teams.
• Collaborate with design and front-end teams to identify, assess, and remediate accessibility issues.
• Influence web standards that provide or improve access to new web technology.
• Work in the open as part of the Mozilla open source project and engage with Mozilla’s global community.
• Work on infrastructure to expose the web platform to accessibility technology.
• Meet standards for gecko's memory usage and performance.
• Implement new web features to enable new kinds of applications and content types.

Requirements

• A degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.
• Demonstrated proficiency with C++.
• Knowledge of web accessibility and ARIA.
• Experience working on cross-platform native applications.
• Creative problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Experience writing and debugging multi-process, multi-threaded code.
• Ability to learn a large and complex multi-language code base.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Ability to effectively participate as part of a geographically-distributed open development team.
• A passion to empower and improve the web for people with a diverse range of abilities.

Qualifications

• Experience with JavaScript, the web, and web applications.

Skills

• Strong understanding of web accessibility and ARIA.
• Experience with web development and browser technologies.
• Experience with C++ and systems programming.
• Experience with multi-process, multi-threaded codebases.
• Experience with open-source projects and contributing to open-source communities.

Benefits

• Generous performance-based bonus plans.
• Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting.
• Quarterly all-company wellness days.
• Home office stipend.
• Professional development budget.
• Well-being stipend.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee referral bonus program.

Pay

• US Tier 1 Locations: $137,000—$183,000 USD
• US Tier 2 Locations: $126,000—$168,000 USD
• US Tier 3 Locations: $116,000—$155,000 USD

Schedule

• Full-time position.