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Protecting confidential communication for the world’s most security-demanding organizations
Senior Software Engineer – Web
Location
Germany
Posted
108 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer – Web
Wire
• As a Senior Software Engineer - Web at Wire, you’ll drive technical direction across our React-based apps and our Electron-based desktop client. • You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Design and other Development teams to translate complex requirements into robust technical solutions. • Real-time messaging and encrypted media exchange using cutting-edge standards like MLS. • Performance-focused improvements on message processing, rendering, synchronization, and offline-capable workflows across platforms and sessions. • Leading technical initiatives with Senior Engineers, Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager to improve architecture and developer experience. • Defining and driving technical initiatives that improve app scalability, reliability, and maintainability — including modernizing legacy areas. • Driving architectural decisions and raising the technical bar through well-reasoned RFCs and ADRs, thoughtful code reviews, and a collaborative, communicative mindset. • Supporting and mentoring other engineers — helping them grow, share context, and take on broader ownership.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years in Frontend or Full-stack development, with significant time in Senior or Tech Lead roles.
- Expert-level knowledge of React and frontend architecture.
- Hands-on experience with Electron, including security constraints (IPC design, preload boundaries, protocol handling, signing/notarization) is a strong plus.
- Strong experience diagnosing and fixing performance and memory issues in real-time applications — including large lists, background processing, CPU vs memory trade-offs and data-processing flows.
- Experience working with local client-side databases (e.g., IndexedDB or alternatives), Web Workers, WASM-based libraries, and large in-browser data sets.
- Familiarity with secure messaging protocols (e.g., MLS, WebRTC, or E2EE media flows) is a strong plus.
- Experience working in modular and multi-package codebases, including monorepos, using tooling like Webpack, npm scripts, and shared frontend infrastructure.
- Experience owning or significantly contributing to CI/CD and release pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
- Strong testing practices with unit, integration and e2e test coverage (e.g., Playwright).
- Must be fluent in English.
Benefits
- Enjoy a yearly education budget of 1000 EUR to strengthen personal capabilities.
- With an Urban Sports Club subscription, stay balanced and mentally and physically healthy!
- Work from a beautiful office in the heart of Berlin or choose a mix of working from anywhere vs. spending selected days together in our office to connect on a personal level.
- Enjoy fresh breakfast in the office, daily fruits, snacks, free soft drinks, and the world's best Barista coffee machine.
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