WeChat Software Engineer

Location: China - Shanghai Office

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

About us

Internet connected and smart home products are growing areas for Dyson where we aim to continue our reputation of being innovative and disruptive. Since our first launch of products in connected space, we have grown fast to several millions of connected machines, and we are envisioning a steep growth in 2026 and beyond both in scale and connected features.

We want to build reliable and robust features to support these increasing demands with innovative and competitive technologies in IoT and digital experiences to support our vision.

We have a ‘You build it, you run it’ ethos.  Our teams are responsible for developing engaging and robust digital experiences to complement Dyson connected products. We are a global department with teams located in the UK, Singapore, and China and we encourage flexible, independent, and innovative thinking in our engineers to deliver solutions.

We’re building world-class cross functional Agile teams to deliver our ambitious vision in the connected space.

If you thrive on working in a collaborative, stimulating, dynamic environment and relish difficult software engineering challenges then we’d like to speak to you!

About the role

As a Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for developing engaging and robust digital experiences to complement Dyson connected products. The work will be challenging, varied, and will help bring Dyson connected products into the evolving world of IoT.

What you’ll be doing:

• Strong cross-functional collaboration with UI/UX designers, Embedded engineers and Cloud developers
• Manage complex data flows to sync UI with Backend/Device status
• Optimize package size, rendering speeds, and memory usage for a smooth user experience.
• Define and integrate API protocols for seamless communication with the Device and Cloud Backend based on REST/GraphQL and hardware protocols like BLE, Wi-Fi, or MQTT for Device/Backend to App communication
• Handle end to end encryption and secure data protocols for data security
• Build and maintain modular, reusable UI component libraries to drive design consistency and accelerate development cycles.

What you need:

• Solid foundation in Computer Science fundamentals, object-oriented design and web technologies
• Familiar with agile development approach, DevOps and modern software engineering tooling like Atlassian, Figma or Microsoft products
• Good experience in JavaScript/Typescript programming and in building UIs with HTML5 and CSS
• Experience with front-end framework/library like React / Vue / Svelte
• Experience with Node.js like next.js
• Experience with three.js is a plus
• Experience in Vibe Coding is a plus
• Deploy and maintain web applications on cloud platforms
• Good English skills, both spoken and written
• Knowledge of the WeChat ecosystem and experience with WeChat mini-programs is a plus

Please apply if you:

• Think this sounds fun
• Want to automate everything
• Like resolving complicated problems
• Have experience with some of our technologies and tools
• Take pride in writing great code
• Have a strong background in software engineering

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.