Chromium Software Engineer

Get to know us

eyeo is an open-source software company that builds products like Adblock Plus, Adblock Browser and Flattr. By leveraging distribution partnerships, we bring ad-blocking technology everywhere, giving users control over their online experience while offering creators, publishers and advertisers more ways to earn money for the free content they provide.

In combining our reach based on distribution partnerships and our own products, our technology runs on over 150 million devices.

At eyeo, we’re passionate about user agency, personal privacy, sustainability and keeping the web an open, fair resource for everyone.

How we work

eyeo colleagues are based all over the world. We practice agile and work in distributed, cross-functional teams that span nearly every timezone. Many of our tech teams prefer to work asynchronously.

After your morning coffee, you'll be expected to...

• Develop libadblockplus and ABP Chromium, using mainly your C++ skills, but with some bits of JavaScript and Java
• Keep up with changes related to Chromium versions and translate these into the required changes for our libraries
• Optimizing memory usage and performance for our mobile partners, while striving for high ad-blocking quality
• Ensure the stability of our SDKs across all platforms and partners via automated tests, code reviews and collaboration with your QA colleagues
• Ensure that partner requests are answered and implemented, and that partners are satisfied

What you bring to the table...

• 4+ years of software development experience
• Extensive experience in modern C++ (minimum C++11)
• Understanding of Chromium browser internals
• Experience in JavaScript, ideally also familiar with V8
• Experience designing the architecture of software components
• Experience with concurrency/multithreaded development
• Continuous Integration at least as a user (bonus for having set up CI pipelines)
• Knowledge of the Git version control system
• Familiarity with agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, etc)
• Proactive problem solver with a good attitude
• Fluent in both verbal and written English

It's awesome, but not required, if you have...

• Experience in Java, ideally with JNI
• Experience developing and unit testing mobile applications, ideally Android native
• Knowledge about other programming languages like Python, Kotlin or Rust
• Understanding of the ad tech landscape
• Experience using and creating Docker containers
• Remote work experience

What we offer:

• Work from home or one of our offices —we trust you to find what works best for you
• Stipend for one of the following: home office or relocation
• Flexible working hours
• 28 days paid vacation days 
• Your choice of hardware and setup
• Personal and professional development budget
• Monthly childcare stipend for children under 6
• Offsite team days and annual summer company retreat in Cologne
• Company-sponsored hackathons

Privacy Notice

When you apply, you’ll be automatically forwarded to our recruitment platform operated by an external service provider called Greenhouse (seated in the US). Greenhouse collects some information on its website, such as anonymous usage statistics, by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technology. For more information, please refer to Greenhouse’s Privacy Policy. All documents and information provided by you are stored with Greenhouse. In order to ensure an adequate level of data protection, eyeo and Greenhouse have entered into the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (“processors”) - Commission Decision C(2010)593. You can request a copy of this by contacting us at privacy[at]eyeo.com. If you don’t want your data forwarded to Greenhouse, please do not apply. For detailed and further information, please refer to our Privacy Policy at https://eyeo.com/en/privacy.

Deadline for applications: 16.12.2021.