Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 300+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, annual revenue now exceeds $100m USD and millions use our browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the latest — Privacy Pro. Our culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management underpins everything we do. Each team member takes full ownership of their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem. If you're seeking end-to-end ownership of your work you've come to the right place!
Your Team and RoleWorking on the Frontend Functional team, you'll build and own features across new and existing products, using React and TypeScript, and work on related projects. Recent projects include:
Creating a new Instant Answer on the Search page (such as weather or calculator)
An in-app onboarding experience
Text-Ad optimizations
As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you’ll build scalable user interfaces, leading and contributing to developing new and existing products and features demonstrating ownership over major components of our codebase while taking responsibility for their maintenance and improvement over time.
In addition to writing pragmatic, performant, and testable code that works consistently across settings, devices, and browsers, you'll play a key role in improving the frontend software architecture, all while prioritizing privacy and user experience throughout the engineering process.
About You7+ years experience in positions where your primary responsibility was writing code
Advanced level of JavaScript/HTML/CSS expertise
Advanced level of React and Typescript
Advanced level of web application architecture expertise
Ability to lead engineering projects with little to no oversight
Experience building large-scale web applications
Experience identifying success criteria and metrics and validating decisions against them
Experience collaborating with engineers on the backend and other platforms, such as Android and iOS
Experience collaborating with product and design to build polished consumer-facing products
Ability to contribute to technical architecture decisions for complex products
Willingness to learn new technologies and ideas
$178,500 USD annually plus stock options. Compensation is identical within professional levels, regardless of geographic location or team. Compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization.
Our Team Member Support Guide explains how we prioritize your wellbeing including paid parental leave, office setup and co-working allowances.
Hiring ProcessHiring works best when it's a two-way street. Learn how we help you get to know DuckDuckGo, envision your future role here, and find out more about how we hire.
Diversity, Equity, and InclusionDuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.
We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to [email protected] to let us know the nature of your request.
Please note:You’ll be required to attend meetings on camera via video conferencing
You should expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days). While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.
While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
A successful candidate must pass a background check as a condition of joining the team.
By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.
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