Software Engineer, Systems

Hi, we’re The Browser Company and we’re building a better way to use the internet.

Browsers are unique in that they are one of the only pieces of software that you share with your parents as well as your kids. Which makes sense, they’re our doorway to the most important things — through them we socialize with loved ones, work on our passion projects, and explore our curiosities. But on their own, they don’t actually do a whole lot, they’re kind of just there.

They don’t help us organize our messy lives or make it easier to compose our ideas. We believe that the browser could do so much more — it can empower and support the amazing things we do on the internet. That’s why we’re building one: a browser that can help us grow, create, and stay curious.

To accomplish this lofty task, we’re building a diverse team of people from different backgrounds and experiences. This isn’t optional, it’s crucial to our mission, as we need a wide range of perspectives to challenge our assumptions and shape our browser through a bold, creative lens. With that in mind, we especially encourage women, people of color, and others from historically marginalized groups to apply.

At The Browser Company, we’ve taken a unique approach to building our Swift/Chromium web browsers for multiple platforms. While most major browsers are written in C++, we decided to avoid challenges around slow iteration speed and memory safety by building Arc and Dia using Swift
. A small team of language compiler and systems engineers, led by Saleem Abdulrasool, have implemented the protocol that allows us to run our Swift code across MacOS, Windows, iOS and Android. You can read more about our open source work on our company Github and our Speaking in Swift blog.

As a Systems
Engineer at The Browser Company, you will focus on advancing Windows support for Swift and developing new features that benefit both our internal projects and the broader Swift community. Your work will directly contribute to our efforts to redefine how browsers and cross-platform applications are built, leveraging Swift as a core part of our technology stack. You’ll have the opportunity to work closely with open-source communities while solving complex technical challenges that have a tangible impact on the future of software development.

• Spearhead technical projects for existing and new features across the Swift compiler, toolchain, SDK and frameworks for Windows.

• Port existing frameworks to Windows and fix Windows-specific bugs and tests.

• Monitor builds, investigating and fixing causes of failures in our Swift CI system.

• Maintain and improve support for platforms under development and ones that are currently unsupported (Windows ARM
  64, Android, etc).

• Build a macOS toolchain via GHA that we can use as an alternative toolchain in Xcode.

• Give back to the open source community. We believe in up streaming our work to benefit the community that we benefit greatly from.

• Onboard onto our team and codebase with your onboarding buddy

• Attend a number of onboarding presentations on the company, product, codebase, and culture

• Get familiar with Swift, our Windows toolchain and tooling, and our Windows roadmap

• Ship a few bug fixes and small improvements across our codebase and tooling

• Pair programmed with a few people on the engineering team

• Be regularly posting product feedback about the browser in our #dogfooding channel

• Be familiar with our Swift architecture and contribute to ideas that will make our engineers’ lives easier when prototyping and building new features.

• Shipped a few tickets to improve infrastructure pieces like our AI product infrastructure, deployment systems, release process, or feature flags…