Senior Frontend Engineering Lead — Desktop Firefox

Mozilla; United States; On-site; USD 195,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Health, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Wellness days

Birthday holiday

Home office stipend

Professional development budget

Parental leave

Employee referral bonus

Job summary

Mozilla is seeking a senior frontend engineering leader to drive the delivery of user-facing browser experiences. You will lead engineers across distributed teams, steer frontend platform initiatives, and partner with product, UX, QA, and data science to ship high-quality features on time.

The role emphasizes mentoring, hiring, and empowering teams, with a focus on design systems, web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS), and data-informed planning.

Qualifications

• 4+ 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.
• Experience leading multiple concurrent projects.
• Previous experience working on frontend platform initiatives e.g. design systems and frontend architectural improvements.
• Track record of delivering front-end experiences to user-facing products
• Hands-on experience with web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS).
• Proven track record successfully leading and shipping sophisticated user facing experiences on time, using data to inform timelines.
• 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: Welcoming differences, Being relationship-minded, Practicing responsible participation, Having grit.

Responsibilities

• Drive initiatives to deliver value to our users ensuring the software your team delivers is high quality, highly available, monitored, and maintainable.
• Help the team navigate trade-offs and drive alignment in a fast-paced field; balancing quick delivery with thoughtful, long-term approaches across a portfolio of user experiences in the browser.
• 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 Science.

Job description

Mozilla is seeking a senior frontend engineering leader to drive the delivery of user-facing browser experiences. You will lead engineers across distributed teams, steer frontend platform initiatives, and partner with product, UX, QA, and data science to ship high-quality features on time.

The role emphasizes mentoring, hiring, and empowering teams, with a focus on design systems, web technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS), and data-informed planning.