Optimizing how millions of users discover, trial, and purchase Dropbox products, directly impacting revenue growth and customer retention
Requirements
- Strong full-stack engineering skills with proficiency in modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript) and backend technologies (Python, Go, or similar)
- Experience designing and scaling systems that handle high traffic and require high reliability
- Track record of influencing technical strategy and driving architectural decisions beyond immediate team scope
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across a team
- Experience with monetization, payments, checkout, or e-commerce platforms
- Background in growth engineering, conversion optimization, or experimentation platforms
- Familiarity with ML/AI applications in personalization or funnel optimization
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable systems powering Dropbox's monetization flows (checkout, trials, subscriptions, pricing)
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for Growth Monetization, aligning engineering investments with business priorities
- Architect AI/ML-powered solutions for conversion optimization, personalized offers, and predictive churn modeling
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional projects with direct revenue impact
- Establish engineering best practices, improve system reliability, and drive down technical debt
- Mentor engineers across the team, fostering growth and elevating technical capabilities
- Partner with Product, Data Science, and Design to translate business goals into technical solutions
Other
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years operating at a senior or staff level
- Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours
- Strong product intuition and ability to balance technical excellence with business impact
- Prior experience at a company operating at significant scale (millions of users)
- Participation in on-call rotations as part of employment
