• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent years of experience
• A minimum of 5 years of software development experience
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering, including modularity, abstraction, data structures, and algorithms
• Extensive experience with HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Web APIs
• Experience with Rust (or a similar compiled language)
• Extensive experience in both frontend and backend web development, with a preference for experience on high-traffic websites
• Good knowledge of developing continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) workflows, particularly using GitHub Actions
• Full-stack mentality, you care about building, deploying and running applications
• The ability to work effectively on a remote, geographically distributed team

Desirable

• We're investing in MDN's platform, transforming it to support a faster pace of experimentation with new features and overall improvement
• A major focus of this effort is refactoring our codebase to enhance flexibility and performance
• In this role, you will collaborate closely with the team to bring this vision to fruition
• You'll work in close partnership with team members across various disciplines, including technical writers, UX designers, product managers, and marketers
• Additionally, we encourage you to share your expertise with the team and the dedicated volunteers who contribute to MDN, fostering a collaborative learning environment
• Maintaining and improving the MDN platform
• Developing new features and owning them from local development to production
• Enhancing MDN's build system to significantly reduce deployment times
• Collaborating with our content team to enhance the MDN authoring experience
• Refactoring our front-end client and SSR pipeline
• Simplifying the integration of MDN data into other products
• Work on our premium product, MDN Plus, to maintain and develop new functionality
• Working with our partners from Google and Microsoft on functionality that we develop together