Senior Chromium Embedded Framework Engineer for mmhmm

mmhmm is an all-in-one platform for making, watching, and talking on videos. We’re on a mission to make video an everyday tool that’s accessible to everyone to communicate in the modern workplace.

We believe that making a video should feel as effortless as sending a text message, as quick as a chat, and as human as a coffee break. 

Founded in May 2020, mmhmm is a fully distributed, global company that builds products and services to make the Out-of-Office (OOO) work lifestyle possible. 

mmhmm is an All Turtles company. All Turtles is a globally distributed product studio that solves meaningful problems.

As a Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) engineer on our macOS team, you’ll be a key member of the small team developing our Mac desktop application. You’ll work with designers, product managers and other engineers to develop new functionality, improve performance and fix bugs. We work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, preferring communication and common sense to highly structured processes and formal documentation.

You’re the right person for this job if you like to work on small, autonomous teams to create new things, take pride in the quality of the user experiences that you create, and love to see your work used by people who are passionate about what you’ve built.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Making major contributions to the CEF layer of mmhmm for macOS. You’ll collaborate closely with others doing so for mmhmm on Windows.
• Researching, diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving issues reported by our internal teams and our customers that often involve complex hardware and software configurations which have caused degraded performance.
• Identifying components of the application that could be refactored for improved performance, clarity, or maintainability.
• Designing software for scalability, maintainability, and security.
• Ensuring that we deliver at high quality, release after release.

You must have:

• Deep experience developing CEF applications, preferably on Apple devices.
• Experience with MacOS fundamentals and the larger Apple development ecosystem. 
• Experience creating a build pipeline to integrate frequent external framework updates along with internal changes to frameworks and native codebases.
• A proven ability to manage your own time and workload. 
• A track record of delivering on ambitious goals.
• Worked in a startup environment. You’re comfortable with ambiguity and change.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with an aptitude for conveying clear thoughts and ideas.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Experience developing applications in Swift or Objective-C
• Familiarity with inner workings of media systems or audio/video codecs
• Experience with System Extensions in the Mac ecosystem

Our Principles

As a company, we realize that talent is evenly distributed throughout the world, but opportunity is not. We believe that you should work where you can have the best impact, and live where you can have the best life. 

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $156,000-$192,000 for a full-time employee based in the United States, but it may vary depending on your specific skills and experience. We’ve invested the time and effort to develop salary levels for all of our roles, for both individual contributors and managers. These levels are based on national compensation data, and are weighted to be competitive in the most expensive markets in the US. Final leveling and cash compensation will be determined at the end of the interview process.

Benefits

In addition to base salary, our team receives equity and a variety of other benefits. We offer all US employees and their dependents comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, covering 90% of the premium for employees, and 70% of the premium for qualifying dependents. US-based employees may also participate in our 401k, and we also offer life insurance. 

Everyone on the team is eligible for a bonus for meeting colleagues in person (an opportunity to build precious relationship capital with teammates), and our monthly distributed facilities supplement. The latter is money we add to everyone's payroll for you to set up a productive and distraction-free work environment, no strings attached, and no receipts required.

How We Work

We’ve recently decided to work seasonally–focused periods of work with limited breaks, followed by 2 consecutive weeks off all together, all at the same time. This means we work hard from early January to mid July, take a break, and focus on output from mid July through late December, and then take another break. It means other things too, but we’ll explain it when we get into the interview process.

This is a full-time, permanent position reporting to the Engineering Manager. This role can be based in any location. Since our fully distributed team works across US time zones, US-based applicants are preferred.

mmhmm is committed to creating and fostering a diverse team. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life to apply. We’re committed to providing reasonable accommodations to all applicants throughout the application process.