The Add-ons Engineering team at Mozilla is responsible for building and maintaining addons.mozilla.org (AMO), which is a critical part of Firefox's customizability. The team needs to ensure a great, secure, and trustworthy experience for both users and developers, modernize the platform and its architecture, and develop new features.
Requirements
- Proficiency in React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, with strong debugging and testing skills.
- Familiarity with Python/Django or similar backend frameworks.
- Understanding of web security principles and practices.
- Awareness of accessibility, responsive design, and API integration.
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL.
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud or similar).
- Other front end stacks such as Jinja2.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and refine frontend experiences in AMO and DevHub, ensuring they are fast, accessible, and user-friendly.
- Contribute to modernization and improvements in architecture and maintainability.
- Help keep the platform safe and trustworthy, with attention to security and user trust.
- Step in to resolve issues impacting users and developers, from small bugs to larger incidents.
- Collaborate with designers, product managers, QA, and community contributors to deliver end-to-end improvements.
- Contribute in the open through pull requests, code reviews, and discussions.
- Frontend and full stack development: React/TypeScript frontends, Django backend, MySQL datastore.
Other
- 4+ years of professional experience building modern web applications.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills in a distributed team environment.
- Comfortable working in an environment that includes contributions from both staff and the open-source community.
- Commitment to our values: Welcoming differences, Being relationship-minded, Practicing responsible participation, Having grit.
- Experience mentoring or supporting junior developers.
