Frontend Engineer (Inbox Web)

Frontend Engineer – Inbox Team

As a Frontend Engineer on the Inbox team, you will play a crucial role in developing Proton's most vital services, including Mail and Calendar. You are expected to be customer‑centric, continuously learning, passionate about technology and usability, adept at turning technical complexities into seamless user experiences, and collaborative with Product, Design, APIs, and your team.

Responsibilities

• Take end‑to‑end ownership of mobile application development projects: scoping projects, revising deadlines, and discerning what matters.
• Foster a culture of innovation by exploring new technologies, methodologies, and approaches to web development.
• Design for scalability, considering data caching, network bandwidth, and server load.
• Implement solutions to monitor and alert the team regarding the state of Inbox web clients.
• Prioritize customer satisfaction by maintaining a customer‑centric mindset, continuously seeking feedback, and iterating to improve the user experience.

Technical Stack and Tools

• Encryption brings unique challenges to front‑end development. A trivial search functionality becomes much more interesting to implement when the email body is fully encrypted.

What You Will Do

• Develop new features: developing, deploying, and supporting high‑quality user experiences, including feature development and implementation.
• Drive adoption and user retention: contribute to the user onboarding and deliver a delightful experience to retain users.
• Collaboration: Work closely with backend, product owners, designers, QA, and other engineers to take initiatives from ideation to completion.
• Code review and optimization: conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality, maintainability, and performance optimization.
• Testing: develop and implement comprehensive testing strategies across all test layers to ensure reliability and future ease of development.

Qualifications

• Experience with React or two or more similar frameworks, developing performant and reusable components.
• Experience contributing to an API codebase; bonus points if in PHP.
• Experience writing tests at scale.
• Familiarity with best practices for ensuring code quality, including CI/CD.

Nice to Have

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.
• Experience working in a distributed team.
• Awareness of common security issues in client‑side development, such as those in the OWASP top ten, and how to mitigate them.
• Familiarity with UX, accessibility, internationalization, and localization concerns and solutions.

Benefits

• Office First: Collaboration is easier and more effective in person, which is why we have offices in Geneva, Zurich, Prague, Barcelona, Paris, London, Vilnius, Skopje, and Taipei. You can also work from home up to 30% of the time, while enjoying great company during our three core days in the office.
• Technology: We provide all the devices and software you need to excel in your role, ensuring you have the best tools at your disposal to achieve your goals.
• Food: Lunch and snacks are provided by Proton every day at our offices.
• Transport: We will always support our employees with transport costs through subsidizing public transport, bike allowances, or parking spaces based on your office location.
• Stock Options: At Proton, we are all owners of the company and you get stock options when you join us.
• Flexible Working: You can define your own working hours as long as it works with team meetings.
• Learning and Development: We are committed to your professional growth. Proton offers various learning opportunities, including training programs, conferences and events, and continual learning.
• Employee Benefits: Comprehensive health insurance plans, competitive retirement savings options, generous vacation and leave policies, and wellness programs.
• Work that Matters: Proton is a community‑first organization, started with the support of a crowdfunding campaign and built with community input. To this day, Proton’s only source of revenue is user subscriptions. Over 100 million people trust and support Proton, and we put our users and community first in everything we do.

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