Software Engineer: Browser / Chrome Extensions Developer

About Affiliate.com:

Affiliate.com is a fast growing data and technology company that is revolutionizing the digital commerce ecosystem. We help power the AI and agentic commerce, search, social, and affiliate commerce activities for thousands of publishers, including AI businesses, content sites, browsers, shopping assistants, creator platforms and more. Affiliate.com integrates with over 20,000 merchants and every major affiliate network to help our publisher partners promote over 1 billion products around the world.

Affiliate.com’s founders have collectively achieved over 15 exits as operators and investors, and have deep operational experience in e-commerce, affiliate and performance marketing and ad tech.

The Opportunity:

As Affiliate.com continues to grow, we are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Software Developer to join our Engineering team and lead our browser and Chrome extension development efforts.

In this role, you will focus on designing, developing, maintaining, and optimizing browser-based applications and extensions.

This is a remote position. US/Canadian candidates only.

The ideal candidate is a proven developer with a strong background in browser and extension-based shopping products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy browser and Chrome Extensions.
• Build responsive and intuitive browser-based user interfaces.
• Integrate third-party APIs, authentication systems, and backend services.
• Develop content scripts, background workers, and browser actions.
• Optimize extension performance for speed, security, and scalability.
• Support in-code reviews, testing and debugging of applications across multiple browser environments.
• Build and maintain the middleware layer between our browser extension clients and backend services, including request routing, response transformation, caching strategies, rate limiting, and error normalization.
• Participate actively in architectural decisions that shape how the extension communicates with our API platform.
• Build and maintain a real-time observability and monitoring system for extension behavior and backend health. You will be expected to define alerting thresholds, instrument meaningful metrics, and respond to production issues quickly.
• Innovate on our proprietary technologies, processes and solutions.
• Collaborate with designers and product owners to design, build and configure new product and feature requirements to meet business needs.

Requirements / Experience / Background:

• Chrome extension / browser extension architecture for shopping products: Experience shipping or leading development of Chrome extensions, including content scripts, service workers, and the Manifest V3 constraints that govern them.
• Knowledge of limitations and best practices working with Chromium-based browsers
• Deep understanding of Chrome Web Store and Edge compliance, policies, best practices with demonstrable experience publishing successful extensions.
• Experience building Affiliate monetized shopping/coupon extensions, and understanding around the Affiliate commerce ecosystem
• 5+ years of experience in a similar role with proven technical skills
• Experience building intuitive user interfaces, including understanding of good vs bad UX in extensions, with examples of prior work
• Able to make and defend technical decisions for the greater good of the entire suite of offerings
• Able to jump between frontend and backend development tasks, or tackling tasks which require both
• Comfortable with working on tasks of all sizes - from small bug fixes and enhancements to large features/rewrites
• Startup or fast-paced product development environments
• Data extraction and browser automation
• Analytics and tracking integrations

Additional Information: This is a remote position. Competitive salary. US / Canada candidates only.

Benefits:

• Health, Dental and Vision (US based candidates)
• Paid time off plus Federal Holidays