Staff Software Engineer, Electron & Browser Infrastructure - Slack Desktop

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Slack · 1 week ago

Staff Software Engineer, Electron & Browser Infrastructure - Slack Desktop

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$238K/yr - $345K/yr

10+ years exp

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, driving innovation in the workforce transformation era. Slack is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join their Desktop team, focusing on building the Desktop Framework and enhancing the Slack desktop client through collaboration and technical leadership.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Enterprise SoftwareTelecom & CommunicationsSaaSCollaborationMessagingProductivity Tools

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

You will lead cross functional initiatives across Electron and at Slack associated with increasing developer productivity, OS level stability, performance, or security alongside desktop and frontend stakeholders

Technical Standards

You will be contributing to key architectural decisions to adapt our existing frontend and desktop infrastructure to support new product features

Navigating Ambiguity

You will thrive in ambiguity, often identifying and offering solutions to problems, like framework migrations or rendering bottlenecks, that are not yet evident to the leaders who presented them

System Health

You will maintain and improve the core systems that power the Slack desktop client and Electron framework, including Slack and Electron-based infrastructure and tooling

Mentorship & Culture

You will build a safe space for learning and serve as a skilled and trusted mentor to engineers across the organization, developing the ability to coach new leaders rather than just individual contributors

Cross-Functional Execution

You will collaborate with teammates across engineering to identify, define, and solve strategically important initiatives, acting as a leader in communication to de-escalate conflicts and drive consensus

Qualification

ReactTypeScriptChromiumElectronPerformance profilingDebugging toolsDesktop developmentLarge-scale codebase managementWindows desktop build infrastructure

Required

10+ years of experience writing client-side code (React + Typescript) for modern web applications at scale

Deep Chromium experience, or experience contributing to large scale open source projects

Experience working in a large-scale, shared codebase with hundreds of contributors, where you have successfully established patterns that allow other teams to contribute effectively without friction

Experience writing understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and scalability

Expertise in building complex systems and tooling, with the ability to lead technical design that guides the best decisions across the team

Exceptional communication skills with the ability to tie technical infrastructure your work succinctly to company goals like performance, reliability and developer velocity

Experience working with performance profiling and debugging tools for web based desktop applications

Familiarity with desktop development, along with the ability to understand and explain technical trade-offs and complexities

A commitment to proactively offering regular, constructive feedback and gracefully receiving it to improve yourself and the team culture

Eagerness to learn, but similar excitement to teach

Understanding that the perfect solution is informed by the people who will be building on your work, rather than being purely dependent on technical merits

Preferred

Experience contributing to the engineering reputation externally (e.g., blog posts, speaking at conferences, open source contributions)

Experience developing on Windows and maintaining build infrastructure for Windows desktop applications

Experience in fast-paced and dynamic product development environments

Benefits

Incentive compensation

Equity

Time off programs

Medical

Dental

Vision

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Employee stock purchasing program

Company

Slack

Glassdoor

3.9

AI work platform for team collaboration and workflow automation.

Founded in 2009

San Francisco, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.slack.com

H1B Sponsorship

Slack has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

85%

Represents job field similar to this job

Engineering and Development

Product Management

Management and Executive

Sales

Accounting and Finance

Arts and Entertainment

Legal and Compliance

Creatives and Design

Marketing

Trends of Total Sponsorships

*2022 (4)

2021 (72)

2020 (71)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$1.4B

Key Investors

Dragoneer Investment Group,General AtlanticSoftBank Vision FundThrive Capital

2020-12-01Acquired

2019-06-20IPO

2019-01-28Secondary Market

Leadership Team

Steve Hamrick

VP, Product Management

Greg Ratner

Senior Director of Software Engineering

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