Engineering Manager, Firefox Desktop

Mozilla Corporation; Canada; Remote; CAD 165,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Mozilla Corporation is seeking a manager to lead software development initiatives. This role emphasizes driving high-quality software projects and ensuring an inclusive team environment. Candidates should have experience managing distributed teams and a strong software engineering background.

Benefits

Generous performance-based bonus plans

Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage

Generous retirement contributions

Quarterly wellness days

Country specific holidays and a birthday off

Home office stipend

Quarterly well-being stipend

Considerable paid parental leave

Employee referral bonus program

Additional benefits vary by country

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineers in a software development environment for 3+ years.
• Proven track record of delivering software projects on time.
• Strong communication skills and ability to develop relationships.

Responsibilities

• Drive initiatives delivering high quality, maintainable software.
• Communicate project goals, scope, and risks effectively.
• Create an inclusive environment fostering team engagement.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Problem Solving

Job description

The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.

About this team and role:

Feel good about your work again! Pursue your future while working to protect the future of the internet for everyone, everywhere.

What you’ll do:

• Drive initiatives to deliver value to our users while ensuring the software your team delivers is high quality, highly available, monitored, and maintainable.
• Communicate your team’s goals, the scope and risks of your projects, and own the delivery of initiatives on clear timelines.
• Identify, build and iterate on engineering processes that support a high performing team.
• Engage regularly 1-1 with your team to discuss both technical work and professional development; provide direct and honest feedback about their individual performances
• Ensure developers are properly supported and empowered throughout the developer lifecycle.
• Create an inclusive environment which engages and challenges your team members.
• Work collaboratively with many teams including Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Analysis.

What you’ll bring:

• 3+ years leading engineers in a software development environment and working across multiple distributed teams.
• Software engineering background that empowers you to drive technical decisions within the team and engage with engineers at all levels of seniority to triage, prioritize and implement.
• Proven track record successfully leading and shipping sophisticated software projects on time in a loosely structured environment.
• Strong communication and ability to develop positive relationships with others, regardless of their rank or role.
• Passion to resolve problems, manage risk, lead change, and facilitate collaborative decision-making.
• Experience effectively communicating with senior leadership and advocating for engineering priorities.
• Desire to grow and learn as a manager, grow and develop others, and get results through others rather than personal technical proficiency.
• Able to hire, mentor, empower, develop, and delegate to geographically distributed team members with different skills from your own.
• Commitment to our values:
• Being relationship-minded
• Having grit
• Experience leading multiple teams and/or driving multiple large scale concurrent projects.
• Experience working in open source environments.

What you’ll get:

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
• Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
• Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
• Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
• One-time home office stipend
• Quarterly well-being stipend
• Considerable paid parental leave
• Employee referral bonus program
• Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)

About Mozilla

Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.

Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Mozilla understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientation s, gender identities, and expressions.

We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate. Please contact us at [e-mail] to request accommodation.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws. Mozilla will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.

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Hiring Ranges:

$165,000 - $220,000 CAD

$149,000 - $199,000 CAD

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