Senior Web Compatibility Engineer
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DuckDuckGoInternet privacy
Remote; Secondary Locations: Japan (Remote), Slovakia (Remote), Spain (Remote), Czechia (Remote), Switzerland (Remote), Estonia (Remote), Singapore (Remote), Mexico (Remote), Portugal (Remote), USA (Remote), Israel (Remote), Kyrgyzstan (Remote), Bulgaria (Remote), Austria (Remote), Iceland (Remote), Hungary (Remote), Ireland (Remote), Canada (Remote), South Africa (Remote), Brazil (Remote), Mauritius (Remote), UK (Remote), Romania (Remote), Cyprus (Remote), Malta (Remote), Latvia (Remote), Argentina (Remote), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Remote), Poland (Remote), Uruguay (Remote)Full-TimeSenior
Salary$178,500 USD annually and stock options.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years of experience building and debugging complex web applications with vanilla JavaScript.
- Required Skills
- JavascriptKotlinSwiftC#C++
Requirements
- Have 7+ years of experience building and debugging complex web applications with vanilla JavaScript.
- Bring detailed knowledge of web standards, web components, and browser APIs.
- Be able to reverse-engineer obfuscated third-party code and reduce issues to minimal test cases.
- Have experience triaging issues and leading incident response.
- Have experience shipping code beyond the web, such as for native or desktop clients.
- Be able to lead complex, ambiguous projects with little to no oversight.
- Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Be interested in automating repetitive work and building agentic tooling.
- Pass a background check as a condition of joining the team.
- Attend video-conference meetings on camera.
- Expect to travel at least twice a year for an all-hands meetup and a team retreat.
- Commit an average of 40 hours per week.
Responsibilities
- Own the web compatibility side of the triage process.
- Debug issues in code the team does not control.
- Distinguish site bugs from browser bugs and privacy protection-induced breakage.
- Lead incident response when a top site breaks.
- Ship durable fixes across Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.
- Build countermeasures for websites that detect DuckDuckGo privacy protections.
- Shim browser APIs so sites work across browser engines and system webviews.
- Work on related projects to prevent user churn and keep users coming back.
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