Role Description

At Dropbox, we believe the future is built on great ideas. And great ideas don’t just come from the top; they come from everywhere. Our mission is to design an enlightened way of working.

Our Engineering team is working to simplify the way people work together. They’re building a family of products that handle over a billion files a day for people around the world. With our broad mission and massive scale, there are countless opportunities to make an impact. This is just the beginning of how Dropbox will use AI/ML to enhance knowledge work in today’s work environment. We’re excited to bring a new generation of personalized AI-powered experiences in Dropbox to improve our customers' working lives and a more focused, efficient, and productive workday.

You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining AI-powered software applications. You will work closely with cross-engineering teams, product managers, data scientists, and ML engineers, to build robust and scalable solutions to drive user engagement and business growth. You will have the opportunity to grow a product at the beginning of it’s S-curve and to define the next generation of AI products at Dropbox.

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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications for AI-powered software applications.


• Define and deliver the multi-team growth strategy with measurable outcomes through ownership of product capabilities and technical systems


• Lead the design and delivery of software solutions across specific product areas or multi-component systems


• Establish engineering best practices, improve system reliability, and drive down technical debt


• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to balance technical requirements with business goals


• Lead by example through high quality code, thoughtful reviews, and hands on mentorship, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented culture.


• Mentor senior engineers; model high-signal design reviews and effective cross-team influence.


• Conduct experiments and A/B tests to validate hypotheses and guide product decisions.


• Participate in and uplevel on-call rotations to maintain service reliability

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

• 12+ years of relevant experience


• BS/BA degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience


• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to translate user requirements into practical solutions.


• Ability to work across the stack on projects and able to build a minimum working product quickly


• Experience working on large scale user facing applications


• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and present technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience on a product growth team


• Excited about building 0→1. Comfortable with ambiguity and pivoting directions


• Experience at building user-facing applications on web and/or desktop using front-end technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML5, CSS3


• Strong proficiency in backend development technologies such as Golang and Python.


• Experience building large distributed systems at scale.

Compensation