MZLA Technologies Corporation (MZLA) is looking to evolve Thunderbird from a single application into a suite of privacy-respecting productivity tools by introducing new products and services that remain independent of big tech ecosystems. This Senior Software Engineer role is crucial for building the systems and infrastructure that power Thunderbird and developing innovative web products to ensure a sustainable open-source future.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant hands-on experience in web infrastructure, service architecture, or DevOps, including leading large-scale or mission-critical projects.
- 2+ years of email development. This includes building, configuring and maintaining email services and infrastructure, as well as working with email deliverability and authentication concepts (e.g., DMARC/DKIM/SPF, domain warm-up, spam triggers, etc.).
- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining web services throughout the stack, from writing backend services to deploying and monitoring them in the cloud.
- 2+ years of experience with Python 3.
- Proven track record of owning features end-to-end, from gathering requirements to the delivery and maintenance of the final product.
- Experience with Keycloak or other OIDC services
- Experience with Rust or Java
Responsibilities
- Lead significant technical initiatives by scoping, planning, and prioritizing features in collaboration with the team.
- Shape the product vision by advocating for user needs, influencing feature development, and contributing to long-term roadmaps.
- Drive quality and reliability through thoughtful design, testing, and code reviews.
- Design, build and maintain services in Python and Typescript.
- Analyze complex email delivery issues, and optimize our configuration and infrastructure to improve our email deliverability and performance.
- Work collaboratively with global teams, including designers, engineers, and community contributors.
- Support the ongoing stability of our services alongside the team, including occasional participation in a shared on-call rotation.
Other
- Great communication skills (both written and verbal), documentation skills, and the ability to work with a multi-disciplinary, geographically distributed team.
- Deep respect for the different skills and perspectives that people of varied technical and non-technical backgrounds bring to a team.
- Experience working remotely and asynchronously across multiple teams and timezones.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with developers, designers, and product managers to achieve quality outcomes.
- Commitment to open-source development and open standards.
