Frontend Engineer, Proton
Growth Engineering
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
Job no longer available
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience using JavaScript and working on concepts such as asynchronous programming, closures, and ES6, at a minimum
- 3+ years of experience using React
- Professional experience building responsive websites
- Experience using CSS frameworks such as Tailwind CSS
- Proven proficiency with TypeScript
- Experience using RESTful APIs
- You test your own code using automated tests, writing unit tests at a minimum (e.g. using Jest, Chai, Mocha)
- Knowledge of what makes a website performant (e.g. caching, server-side rendering)
- You are product-minded and committed to building the best user experience
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, and collaborative environment
Desirable
- Experience using Astro
- Experience working with headless CMS
- Knowledge of web accessibility best practices
- Experience using DevOps processes and practices (including CI/CD)
- Experience working in a distributed team
What the job involves
- As a member of the Growth Engineering team, you’ll be responsible for bringing millions of new customers to our product ecosystem: Proton Mail, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive, and Proton VPN
- You'll work closely with a small, dedicated team to build systems for acquisition, onboarding, activation, and engagement while creating great user experiences at scale
- You’ll help design experiments to discover and validate customer hypotheses, and develop fast, reliable services to drive engagement and keep our existing customers happy
- As we scale, you’ll have the opportunity to grow into a technical lead role, responsible for a team of engineers and the entire lifecycle of new projects
- Join an existing team within Growth Engineering, working closely with teammates in order to design, build, test, and optimize our websites and web properties
- Develop high-quality customer experiences on the web
- Write readable, maintainable, tested, and well-documented code
- Ensure that acceptance criteria and all parts of the technical design are correctly incorporated
- Follow and promote engineering best practices
- Take part in team activities, such as sprint ceremonies, code reviews, and pair programming
- Share your unique knowledge and skills with the rest of the team
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Proton is a Geneva-based startup founded by former CERN worker and internet privacy advocate Andy Yen. It provides internet users with encrypted webmail, calendar, drive, and VPN services.
Proton maintains its pro-privacy ethos using a Swiss VPN, protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. In essence, it has established a connection between the personal and the political, smartly utilising the country’s national laws to benefit people and organisations globally. Proton also funds charities and movements such as the World Wide Web Foundation and Netblocks, further cementing it as an influential NGO.
Perhaps Proton’s most important quality is its determination to maintain independence from advertisers and companies. Originally founded on donations, Proton has funded itself via grants rather than venture capital so that all of its customer's data is never at risk of being mined. One effect of this is that to keep up with the increasing competition in the data privacy sector, Proton has expanded its services to allow more cross-selling and simultaneously has more products to offer, such as drive and calendar privacy.
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- These vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events, and team-building activities.
Company values
- People first - Whether serving the Proton community or the broader world, Proton puts people first. it will always put making a positive impact before profits. Proton is independent, neutral, employee-controlled, and does not have venture capital investors.
- Do what is right - Proton believes doing what is right is a competitive advantage. Proton's culture empowers it to do what is right and to do work that it can truly be proud of. It aims to be a tech company with a conscience.
- Science is our foundation - Proton was founded by scientists, and science is part of its DNA and culture. It believes in technical excellence, rigor, and peer review. Integrity, honesty, and transparency are core values.
- We believe in privacy - Proton believes that privacy is a fundamental right and an essential part of being human. Without it, there can be no freedom. Privacy is a deeply held belief that guides all that Proton does.
- Together it’s possible - Proton believes in collective strength. Its mission can only be accomplished by working together with its community. Together, Proton is building a better internet for future generations.
Company HQ
Plan-les-Ouates, GE
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Founders
Andy Yen
(CEO)Previously PhD Researcher at CERN
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