Software Engineer (Client Team)

About Passbolt
Passbolt is an innovative cybersecurity product company that is growing quickly. Our organization is remote-first with its headquarters located in Luxembourg (Europe). We are the team behind Passbolt, the collaborative credential management platform for modern teams used by over 40,000 organizations in 50+ countries.
You will join a growing and vibrant team committed to leverage the power of open source and a state-of-the-art security architecture to challenge the status quo in the cybersecurity industry. Passbolt is and always will be an engineering company, while scaling international sales and marketing to support global operations and customer success. We're looking for versatile self-motivated enthusiasts with a knack for commercial open source software, ethics and privacy, who can think out of the box and find impactful solutions to challenges.
See https://www.passbolt.com
Description
We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Client team and contribute to the growing demands of Passbolt’s client applications, including a browser extension, desktop application, command-line interface, and SDKs. The end-to-end nature of Passbolt places significant responsibility on the client applications, handling data encryption, data integrity, secure communication while providing a seamless experience across multiple platforms.
As a Software Engineer, your role will involve analysing, implementing, and improving features across Passbolt’s client applications while maintaining best in class security standard, performance, and usability. From refining UI/UX and business logic to ensuring robust cryptographic mechanisms and zero-trust data validation, you will contribute to every stage of development.
You and your team will be responsible for shipping the features requested by our community of users while maintaining an outstanding level of quality throughout the process. After gaining expertise and product knowledge, you’ll help us develop innovative approaches to complex technical problems, find ways to make our most demanding community members happy, and cultivate a reputation for excellence among a vast community of developers.
Technologies
Programming Languages: JavaScript (Vanilla & React​)
Complementary Programming Languages: C#, Swift​
Markup and Styling: HTML, CSS, Less​
Cryptography: OpenPGP, OpenPGP.js, GopenPGP
Testing Frameworks: Jest, WebdriverIO​
Component Development: Storybook​
Package Managers: npm, composer, NuGet​
Version Control and Containerization: Git, Docker​
Operating Systems: Windows, MacOs, Linux
Modeling Language: UML
Development Methodologies: Agile Scrum
Main responsibilities
Development & Testing
Develop new JavaScript features for existing clients used daily by over half a million users.​
Browser: Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari JavaScript browser extensions.
Desktop application: Microsoft UWP application.
Command line interface: Go.
SDK: PHP, JavaScript, Go and more.
Maintain, improve and fix bugs on existing codebase.
Transform wireframes from design tools like Figma into reusable Storybook components.​
Animate components based on user stories and functional specifications to meet user expectations.​
Implement client-side business logic, including zero trust data validation, local data persistence, and cryptographic mechanisms, following technical specifications.​
Conduct thorough code reviews to identify defects prior to launch.
Write unit tests aiming for 80% coverage to ensure functionality and prevent regressions.​
Develop end-to-end tests to ensure critical user journeys function correctly across various scenarios.​
Maintain a focus on quality and simplicity; we adhere to the principle that less is more.
Ensure compatibility across multiple platforms and environments to maintain Passbolt's versatility.​
Optimize code for performance and scalability to handle growth and increased demand efficiently.​
Analyze & documentation
Assist sales and customer success teams in refining upcoming requests into comprehensive business cases.
Support product owners proposing functional approaches to new business cases.
Define comprehensive and iterative technical approaches to functional problems.
Collaborate with Seniors on long-term structural or architectural improvements by submitting business cases that will be used as base of conversation with co-workers.
Contribute to our extensive online documentation, including OpenAPI specifications, SDKs, and user and admin guides.
Engage with community members to refine feature requests or bug reports.
Share back findings, lessons learned and best practices with the team and community by writing blog posts on the company blog and participating in online and offline events.
Deployment and reliability
Collaborate with Seniors to plan and deploy new product versions with strategies designed to minimize or eliminate downtime.
Collaborate with Seniors to maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment risks and streamlining releases.
Collaborate with Seniors to provide technical expertise during incidents by rapidly identifying issues and devising solutions that help restore system stability

Employment type
Full-Time

Work arrangement
No