[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Accessibility
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mozilla Corporation is a non-profit-backed technology company known for its pioneering brands like Firefox. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Accessibility to enhance the web's accessibility, ensuring it is open and usable for everyone, regardless of their abilities.
Responsibilities
- Improve the architecture, stability, correctness and performance of the core Gecko accessibility engine
- Debug and fix problems in our multi-process, multi-threaded codebase
- Debug OS specific issues
- Build excellent working relationships with engineers and organizational leaders on other teams
- Collaborate with design and front-end teams to identify, assess, and remediate accessibility issues
- Influence web standards that provide or improve access to new web technology
- Work in the open as part of the Mozilla open source project and engage with Mozilla’s global community
- Work on infrastructure to expose the web platform to accessibility technology
- Meet standards for gecko's memory usage and performance
- Implement new web features to enable new kinds of applications and content types
Skills
- A degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field
- Demonstrated proficiency with C++
- Knowledge of web accessibility and ARIA
- Knowledge of Javascript, the web, and web applications
- Experience working on cross-platform native applications
- Creative problem-solving and debugging skills
- Experience writing and debugging multi-process, multi-threaded code
- Ability to learn a large and complex multi-language code base
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Ability to effectively participate as part of a geographically-distributed open development team
- A passion to empower and improve the web for people with a diverse range of abilities
Benefits
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
- Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
- Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
- One-time home office stipend
- Annual professional development budget
- Quarterly well-being stipend
- Considerable paid parental leave
- Employee referral bonus program
- Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)
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