# Front End Engineering Manager, Firefox Desktop

**Company:** [Mozilla](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mozilla)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** CA$149k – CA$220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Frontend Architecture, Design Systems, AI, Open Source, Firefox, Windows, Linux, macOS
**Posted:** 2026-08-13

> Leads a distributed team improving Firefox Desktop’s user interface and frontend platform, guiding technical decisions, delivery, hiring, and professional development. Requires software engineering experience, management experience, and hands-on web technology expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Drive initiatives that deliver value to users while ensuring software is high quality, highly available, monitored, and maintainable.
- Help the team navigate trade-offs and align on short- and long-term approaches across browser user experiences.
- Communicate team goals, project scope and risks, and own delivery against clear timelines.
- Build and iterate on engineering processes that support a high-performing team.
- Conduct regular one-on-ones covering technical work and professional development; provide direct performance feedback.
- Support and empower developers throughout the developer lifecycle.
- Create an inclusive environment that engages and challenges team members.
- Collaborate with Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Science teams.
- Hire, mentor, empower, develop, and delegate to geographically distributed team members.

## Requirements
- 4+ years leading engineers in a software development environment and working across multiple distributed teams.
- Software engineering background enabling technical decision-making and collaboration with engineers at all levels.
- Experience leading multiple concurrent projects.
- Experience with frontend platform initiatives such as design systems and frontend architectural improvements.
- Track record of delivering frontend experiences for user-facing products.
- Hands-on experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Proven ability to lead and ship sophisticated user-facing experiences on time, using data to inform timelines.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to resolve problems, manage risk, lead change, and facilitate collaborative decision-making.
- Experience communicating with senior leadership and advocating for engineering priorities.
- Desire to grow as a manager and develop others, achieving results through the team.
- Commitment to welcoming differences, building relationships, practicing responsible participation, and demonstrating grit.

## Nice to have
- Experience fostering the use of AI in frontend engineering teams.
- Experience working in open-source environments.

## Compensation and benefits
- Annual salary range of $149,000–$220,000.
- Performance-based bonus plans.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Retirement contributions with immediate vesting.
- Country-specific holidays and a birthday day off.
- Home office stipend.
- Annual professional development budget.
- Well-being stipend.
- Paid parental leave.
- Employee referral bonus program.
- Life, AD&D, disability, and employee assistance benefits, varying by country.

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