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Backend Product Software Engineer, Commerce Platform - Dropbox

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Job Title
Backend Product Software Engineer, Commerce Platform
Job Location
Remote - Canada: Select locations
Job Description

Role Description

As a Backend Product Software Engineer focused on the Commerce Platform at Dropbox, you will play a pivotal role in building and evolving the systems that power the monetization of Dropbox products across diverse storefronts. You’ll help shape a suite of scalable, resilient services that support millions of users globally. Your work will span planning and forecasting platform growth, driving architectural improvements, enhancing performance and reliability, and ensuring security and seamless customer experiences.
 
By joining this team, you’ll gain the opportunity to tackle complex technical challenges, influence strategic initiatives, and work closely with senior engineering leadership. Your contributions will have high visibility and measurable business impact as you help redefine how Dropbox builds and sells its products.

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

  • Autonomously deliver ongoing business impact across a team, product capability, or technical system.
  • Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to make effective tradeoffs between technical requirements and business goals.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contributing to the overall growth and success of the engineering team.
  • Adapt to a dynamic and fast-paced work environment, with a focus on continuous learning and professional development.
  • Ensure continuous service operation by participating in the team's on-call rotation, including outside core collaboration hours on a periodic basis.

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

  • 5+ years of experience building applications professionally
  • BS degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field. (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.
  • Delivered tangible results, from conceptualization to implementation, while making significant contributions to the success of the project.
  • Experience in developing web applications, demonstrating a deep understanding of the intricacies involved in building robust and scalable systems.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Contributions to open source projects or technical communities
  • Full-Stack Development
  • Technologies: MySQL, Python, Go, Java, Rust

Compensation

Canada Pay Range
$168,300$227,700 CAD

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Dropbox Headquarters Location

San Francisco, CA

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Dropbox Company Size

Between 2,204 - 2,204 employees

Dropbox Founded Year

2007

Dropbox Total Amount Raised

$1,710,465,024

Dropbox Funding Rounds

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  • IPO

    $0

  • Debt Financing

    $600,000,000 USD

  • Seed

    $1,250,000 USD

  • Debt Financing

    $500,000,000 USD

  • Series C

    $350,000,000 USD

  • Undisclosed

    $1,000,000 USD

  • Series B

    $250,000,000 USD

  • Undisclosed

    $1,000,000 USD

  • Series A

    $6,000,000 USD

  • Seed

    $1,200,000 USD

  • Seed

    $15,000 USD