Senior Software Engineer, Accessibility

What You’ll Do

• Improve the architecture, stability, correctness and performance of the core Gecko accessibility engine.
• Debug and fix problems in our multi-process, multi-threaded codebase.
• Debug OS specific issues.
• Build excellent working relationships with engineers and organizational leaders on other teams.
• Collaborate with design and front-end teams to identify, assess, and remediate accessibility issues.
• Influence web standards that provide or improve access to new web technology.
• Work in the open as part of the Mozilla open source project and engage with Mozilla’s global community.
• Work on infrastructure to expose the web platform to accessibility technology.
• Meet standards for gecko's memory usage and performance.
• Implement new web features to enable new kinds of applications and content types.

What you'll bring

• A degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.
• Demonstrated proficiency with C++.
• Knowledge of web accessibility and ARIA.
• Knowledge of Javascript, the web, and web applications.
• Experience working on cross-platform native applications.
• Creative problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Experience writing and debugging multi-process, multi-threaded code.
• Ability to learn a large and complex multi-language code base.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Ability to effectively participate as part of a geographically-distributed open development team.
• A passion to empower and improve the web for people with a diverse range of abilities.

What you’ll get

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
• Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
• Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
• Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
• One-time home office stipend
• Annual professional development budget
• Quarterly well-being stipend
• Considerable paid parental leave
• Employee referral bonus program
• Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)