Mozilla has had a long history of using “openness” to achieve impact with its product and policy stances, and recently established an organization-wide “Open by Design” strategy. Our Open Innovation Team is a multi-disciplinary centre of excellence to champion this strategy. Achieving this mandate requires creating, maintaining and integrating systems for participation and contribution by external collaborators in Mozilla (non-employees).
One project we have been leading is Common Voice, our effort to democratize speech technologies. We have created a platform for institutions and individuals who are passionate about speech technologies and languages to contribute their voices and setup new communities. We are working to make this an engaging experience and to make it easy for new communities to get setup. Over the past 2 years, Common Voice has built the largest publicly available, open source voice dataset in the world, in 28 languages (and growing!).
Your initial mandate will be to serve as the lead engineer for Common Voice. This is an exciting opportunity to have impact, at scale, on a speech technologies.
Responsibilities
You will develop code (Typescript, MySQL, HTML, CSS -- using various frameworks, including Node.js and React) for Open Innovation software projects/products, specifically Common Voice, in alignment with product roadmaps.
You will work with designers to build and deploy prototypes and experiments that test experience concepts. Help evaluate these, identify shortcomings, and plan for iterations inclusive of accessibility and responsive design best practices.
You will partner withproduct managers and designers to implement measurement strategies for analysis of overall engagement and experiments.
You will collaborate with other developers, engineers, QA testers and designers as part of a distributed open source development team. This will involve aligning on quality, code reviews (receiving and giving), engagement with contributors, mentorship, coordinated planning and other collaborative practices.
You will communicate clearly and regularly with teammates around the world, via face-to-face meetings and through asynchronous channels like email, GitHub and Slack.
You will participate in agile software development practices, like daily standups, sprint planning meetings, demos, retrospectives and sprint-based development cycles.
Requirements
- Passion to develop excellent products and experiences.
- At least three years of professional experience in full stack web development.
- A solid portfolio of web projects.
- Interest in modern web technologies.
- Fluency in HTML/CSS/JS/TypeScript or other typed languages/(My)SQL.
- Fluency in web application architecture, including data structures.
- Experience with Node.js and React.
- Rapidly conceive, visualize and iterate design solutions in a collaborative environment.
- The ability to translate wireframes, style guides and design direction into polished, production ready visual experiences.
- Empathy for the interaction that people will have with what you build; you create transitions and subtitles that will make a journey more intuitive.
- Awareness of the need for accessibility in implementation and a willingness to collaborate with designers to deliver inclusive experiences.
- Strong communication skills -- you communicate your opinions and listen to others.
- Have experience working in multidisciplinary teams of technical and non-technical people.
- Have a track record of delivering excellence under time pressure.
- A willingness to learn and keep growing, both professionally and personally.
Bonus Points
- Experience working with version control systems (especially git).
- A good understanding of software development lifecycles.
- Experience with frontend development for Python/Django based projects and CMS.
- Experience translating designs from Zeplin, InVision and Sketch into working code.
- Have worked on contributor or community participation technologies in the past, and have had substantial personal experience contributing to an open source project and community.
Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. Join us and become part of our mission to promote openness, innovation and opportunity online.
About Mozilla
Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
