As a Full-Stack Product Engineer on the Dropbox DocSend team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of secure document management, sharing, and tracking. Your responsibilities will revolve around developing and enhancing our product to deliver exceptional user experiences — working closely with cross-functional teams to turn innovative ideas into robust, scalable, and user-friendly features. You will also have the opportunity to drive high impact and have high ownership in a smaller, startup-like team.
DocSend is one of Dropbox's fastest-growing businesses — we have a double-digit growth rate year over year, and are looking for engineers who are eager to contribute to continuing this trajectory! This year, we are focused on expanding our Virtual Data Room business by improving deal workflows and introducing AI-enabled features.
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.
- Ability to handle full-stack projects and deliver minimum viable products efficiently.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to make effective tradeoffs between technical requirements and business goals.
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers.
- Participate in the process of continuous deployment, including code reviews and deploys.
- Participate in on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours.
- Debug customer issues using logs, metrics, and traces.
- Adapt to a dynamic and fast-paced work environment, with a focus on continuous learning and professional development.
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- 2+ years of experience in software engineering or related industry roles.
- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.
- Demonstrated expertise in Ruby on Rails applications and React.
- Demonstrated success in developing and deploying large-scale web applications with a user-focused approach.
- Proven ability to thrive in agile, fast-paced environments, including comfort with continuous deployment practices and rapid iteration.
Familiarity with tools and languages used on the DocSend Engineering team. This includes Typescript, GraphQL, HAML, PostgreSQL
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