Contract Staff Front End Engineer (Web Conference/Screen Sharing) New Remote Canada

Mozilla Corporation; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 145,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Mozilla Corporation is seeking a front-end engineer for a fixed-term contract to implement Firefox screen-sharing UX across the desktop experience. You will translate approved designs for screen, window, and tab sharing, ensuring quality through QA and public reviews.

You will collaborate with UX for edge cases, write UI tests, and contribute in a distributed team via Phabricator and Bugzilla.”

Qualifications

• Experience implementing approved designs faithfully.
• Ability to get productive quickly in a large, mature codebase you didn't write.
• Experience writing automated tests for user interfaces.
• Strong asynchronous written communication across time zones.
• Comfort working in public with open Bugzilla and Phabricator.
• Experience with WebRTC or getDisplayMedia.

Responsibilities

• Implement approved UX designs for Firefox's screen, window, and tab sharing experience, and see them through to release.
• Collaborate with UX on unanticipated cases and with QA on validation.
• Land your work in mozilla-central through public code review on Phabricator.

Skills

Front-end engineering

WebRTC

Accessibility

AI tooling in front-end

Asynchronous communication

Tools

Phabricator

Bugzilla

Job description

Remote Canada

About the team and role

Mozilla's Web Conferencing team owns the media capture and sharing features that make Firefox work for video calls: screen, window, and tab capture, and the interface users interact with when they share content in Google Meet, Zoom, or Jitsi.

We're bringing a set of screensharing improvements to Firefox. The backend work is complete and the UX has been designed and approved. We're looking for a front-end engineer on a fixed-term contract to implement it and ship it.

What you'll do

• Implement approved UX designs for Firefox's screen, window, and tab sharing experience, and see them through to release
• Work with UX on the cases a design didn't anticipate, and with QA on validating the result
• Land your work in mozilla-central through public code review on Phabricator

What you'll bring

• Experience implementing an approved design faithfully, plus the judgment to flag it when the design meets a case it didn't anticipate
• Ability to get productive quickly in a large, mature codebase you didn't write
• Experience writing automated tests for user interfaces
• Strong asynchronous written communication, since the team is distributed across timezones
• Comfort working in public, since Bugzilla and Phabricator are open
• Experience with WebRTC or getDisplayMedia
• Accessibility experience with modal dialogs and list navigation
• Experience using AI tooling effectively in front-end development

Hiring Ranges:

$145,000 - $170,800 CAD

$154,000 - $168,000 USD

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