As a Product Engineer at Dropbox on our Growth “Lifecycle” team, you will play a key role in shaping how millions of users find and unlock value through the right paid Dropbox plan at the right time. The Growth Lifecycle team powers Dropbox’s top-of-funnel engine — driving sign-ups, trials, and upsells while optimizing storage economics. In this role, you’ll work across the stack and collaborate with cross-functional partners to build, experiment with, and optimize high-traffic experiences that drive customer acquisition, accelerate activation, and deliver sustainable revenue impact.
Our Product Engineers are at the forefront of crafting the seamless, intuitive user interfaces that millions rely on for their data interaction and collaboration needs. Leveraging advanced knowledge in languages and frameworks like TypeScript, CSS, and HTML, we ensure Dropbox's platforms are responsive, accessible, and deliver exceptional user experiences. Through their commitment to optimization and innovation, they play a crucial role in evolving Dropbox's offerings, making digital storage and collaboration more efficient and user-friendly on a global scale.
Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here.
- Articulate a technical vision and collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver that vision.
- Write full-stack code, leading by example and understanding root causes alongside junior engineers.
- Participate in bug fixes and operational improvements, balancing technical tradeoffs with product velocity.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and analysts to deeply understand the needs of our users and build a product that serves those needs.
- Develop and execute against both short and long-term roadmaps, making effective tradeoffs between business impact, user experience, and a high-quality technical foundation.
- Improve the team and company culture through mentorship, interviewing, and involvement in new initiatives.
- Own relationships with other engineering teams and collaborate with other functions within Dropbox.
Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.
Requirements- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering and/or work-related industry experience.
- Success developing and shipping a large-scale web application with a user-empathetic mindset.
- Skilled at building user-facing applications and supporting systems and libraries on web using frontend technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and HTML/CSS.
- Ability to work across the stack on projects and able to build a minimum working product quickly.
- Experience with TypeScript and React.
- Prior work in a Growth organization or Monetization domain experience.
- Familiarity in using Git as a version control system to manage codebase changes and collaborate with other team members efficiently.
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