Principal Web Platform Engineer

Location:

(00180) Finland

Salary:

market rate

Type:

Contract

Start Date:

asap

Contract Period:

6 months

Main Industry:

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Advertiser:

microTECH Global Ltd

Job ID:

130925612

Posted On:

09 August 2024

Job Title: Principal Web Platform Engineer
Job Type: Contract or Permanent
Location: Helsinki, Finland

Relocation Required – Non Negotiable

Our client are a global telecommunication company.

Brief:
– As a principal engineer, you will help integrating Chromium Web engine to OpenHarmony OS(OHOS), our own, open source operating system.
– You will be working on integrating Chromium with select OpenHarmony OS features, with our own WebView, and with our Web Browser application.
– Your deep understanding of Chromium internal architecture, and how Chromium supports other operating systems help you make the right architectural decisions to archive best-in-class performance: better performance / power consumption of our Browser and of reference hybrid apps (apps that use our WebView) compared to leading operating systems.

Responsibilities:
– Analyze the end-to-end performance bottleneck of WebView and Browser on the OpenHarmony OS.
– Streamline Chromium rendering pipeline for mobile phone, tablet and desktops in typical use cases.
– Recommend architectural changes to overcome identified bottlenecks, and implement some of these by yourself.
– Vertically integrate and use OHOS and our in-house HW/chip capabilities and develop differentiated web features.
– Collaborate with 3rd party open source community partners and contribute code to the Chromium community.

Your code contributions will generally be to the Open Harmony OS open source repositories. They need to meet release quality requirements.

Key Requirements:
– Proficient in C/C++ programming, Web standards implementation.
– Extensive development or optimizatiion experience with one of the state-of-art web engines, preferably with Chromium, Webkit and Firefox also considered.
– Deeply understand the web engine internal architecture, and integration to other operating systems, whole process of rendering pipelines of web engines, such as Chromium and Blink rendering, compositor & graphics.
– Understanding the moderm graphics engine, such as SKIA, and GPU-related APIs, such as WebGL/WebGPU/Web3D, is a plus.
– Good knowledge of JS engine, such as V8, is a plus.
– Chromium committer will be preferred.
– Good communication skills, effective work in team and remote interaction.
– Understanding cultural differences helps teams work harmoniously across cultural domains.
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