Senior Software Engineer, MDN (Fixed Term Contract)

Requirements

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent years of experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of software development experience.
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering, including modularity, abstraction, data structures, and algorithms.
• Extensive experience with HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Web APIs.
• Experience with Rust (or a similar compiled language).
• Extensive experience in both frontend and backend web development, with a preference for experience on high-traffic websites.
• Good knowledge of developing continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) workflows, particularly using GitHub Actions.
• Full-stack mentality, you care about building, deploying and running applications.
• The ability to work effectively on a remote, geographically distributed team.

Nice to Haves

• Experience in application/systems programming (Linux/MacOS/Windows).
• Experience working within open source projects.

What You'll Be Doing

• Maintaining and improving the MDN platform.
• Developing new features and owning them from local development to production.
• Enhancing MDN's build system to significantly reduce deployment times.
• Collaborating with our content team to enhance the MDN authoring experience.
• Refactoring our front-end client and SSR pipeline.
• Simplifying the integration of MDN data into other products.
• Work on our premium product, MDN Plus, to maintain and develop new functionality.
• Working with our partners from Google and Microsoft on functionality that we develop together.

Perks and Benefits

• Remote UK position with a salary range from £81,000 to £110,000 GBP.