Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Dash Experiences
Dropbox
Dropbox is a Virtual First company. For this role, we are currently only authorized to hire candidates from the following provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.
Company Description
Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of more than 2,000 bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the flexibility of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself— Dropbox is ready for you.
Team Description
The Dropbox Engineering Team builds the technology that creates more enlightened ways of working for hundreds of millions of people. Every day, our platforms—including Dropbox Dash, Dropbox Sign, and our core sync engine—handle over a billion files for users worldwide, creating engineering challenges as great as the opportunity for impact. Our software engineering team uses a range of technologies to solve interesting problems, including Python, React, Node.js, JavaScript, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Android development. We think like a startup but build for an enterprise, exploring new possibilities that transform how people work. If you're excited about turning complex technical challenges into intuitive solutions at scale, join our Engineering team. Areas of work include Machine Learning Engineers, Infrastructure Engineer, Product SWE Frontend and Backend, Mobile Software Engineers (iOS and Android), Engineering Manager, Data Engineer, Software Development Engineer in Test, Security Engineering, Site Reliability Engineer, Technical Program Managers, Network Engineer, Datacenter Engineer, Technical Supply Chain Manager and more.
Role Description
The Experiences organization at Dropbox is responsible for shaping the core user experiences across mobile, web, desktop, and browser extensions. We’re looking for a Staff Engineer to lead technical strategy and execution across the Experiences org—which includes our Find & Discover, Collab & Assist, and Surfaces & Foundations teams.
This is a critical leadership role that requires deep architectural thinking, strong cross-team influence, and a commitment to engineering craft. You will be responsible for unblocking major platform migrations, leading multi-team app refactors, and setting long-term infrastructure strategy. You’ll work alongside product, engineering, data science, and design leaders to ensure technical execution supports our business goals.
As the first dedicated Staff Engineer in the Experiences org, you’ll serve as the technical glue across teams and platforms, with clear pathways to future Principal-level scope.
Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here.
Responsibilities
- Ensure scalable, high-quality client architecture and foundational infrastructure improvements to enhance developer efficiency and platform performance.
- Lead large-scale app refactors to improve long-term architecture.
- Align technical strategy across multiple teams and drive coordination across mobile, desktop, web, and browser surfaces.
- Mentor engineers and tech leads to reduce execution friction and improve engineering craft through best practices, design reviews, and tech debt reduction.
- Enhance operational excellence by influencing processes, tooling, and incident mitigation.
- Define and maintain the technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with user and business needs.
- Represent the team in company-wide technical discussions and forums.
Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., Physics or Mathematics), or equivalent technical experience
- Deep technical experience working with Electron apps
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in Staff or Tech Lead roles
- Proven success in driving cross-platform architectural initiatives and scaling systems
- Strong communication and influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience leading large-scale migrations, refactors, or foundational infra investments
- Track record of mentorship and improving engineering craft org-wide
- A passion for building consumer applications with elegant and clean interfaces
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience operating in complex, matrixed product organizations
- Familiarity with mobile, web, and desktop architecture
- Experience developing, testing, shipping and supporting a product for hundreds of thousands of users
Compensation
The range listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE for this role, subject to change.
Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
Benefits
Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage*
- Retirement savings through a defined contribution pension or savings plan**
- Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off policy in addition to statutory holidays, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh
- Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance*
- Business Travel Protection: Travel medical and accident insurance*
- Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food & groceries, and much more
- Parental benefits including: Parental Leave, Fertility Benefits, Adoptions and Surrogacy support, and Lactation support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
Additional benefits details are available upon request.
*Where group plans are not available, allowances may be provided
**Benefit, amount, and type are dependent on geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy