Staff Backend Product Software Engineer, Team Formation

2 days ago

Remote Canada Select locations Dropbox Full time $200,600 - $271,400 per year

Role Description

Dropbox, we believe in simplifying the way people work together. We provide a range of innovative cloud-based solutions to empower individuals and businesses to share, access, and collaborate on their files seamlessly. Staff Engineers are pivotal in shaping our mission of building a more enlightened way of working where everyone can unleash their creative potential without constraints.

This team will own project Optimize Activation and Engagement Flows for Team Users. Lead a multi-year plan to modernize onboarding and activation, clean up core Dropbox surfaces, and build intelligent, adaptive systems that boost team activation, invites, and long-term engagement across platforms. Opportunity for large impact on the business helping Teams users activate on the right features to drive down churn. 

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
  • Lead and mentor a team of 12 engineers to deliver high-impact business and customer outcomes.
  • Contribute hands-on coding (≈50%), primarily in the back-end stack, and write clear, high-quality technical specs.
  • Shape technical direction and partner with Product Management as DRIs for critical company-wide objectives.
  • Drive cross-organizational impact through strong collaboration with engineering teams and cross-functional partners.
  • Champion Agile practices, including planning, estimation, and retrospectives.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, clarity in ambiguity, operational excellence, and a strong bias for action.
  • Demonstrate senior technical leadership and maintain high engineering standards in a virtual-first environment.

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, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience
  • Minimum of 12 years of experience as a software engineer 
  • Must have worked in a consumer user-facing team (versus a platform team, a developer-facing API-based product, etc) 

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience working on a consumer-facing product onboarding flow on web 
Compensation

Canada Pay Range $200,600—$271,400 CAD

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