Staff Software Engineer, Asana
API
$211-240k
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
Work management platform
Open for applications
Work management platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$211-240k
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help humanity thrive by enabling the world's teams to work together effortlessly.
Role
Who you are
- If you care deeply about building effective developer experiences and high-performing engineering teams, then we’d love to hear from you!
- 6+ years of experience working in large codebases
- 2+ years leading engineering teams
- 1+ years building public-facing API products or Developer Platforms
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and delegation skills
- Quick learner and comfortable transitioning between different contexts and codebases, enabling you to jump in and rapidly unblock teammates facing thorny obstacles
- Deep project management experience including high-level timeline planning, risk mitigation, stakeholder management, and coordinating the work of others
- Passionate about mentoring engineers at all skill levels; able to identify technical growth opportunities and deliver thoughtful, candid feedback
- Excited to be a part of an inclusive culture where everyone brings the aspects of themselves to the workplace that they need to thrive, fostering an environment of psychological safety within your team
- Demonstrate curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making
- At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply
What the job involves
- Asana’s API gives external developers the power and flexibility to extend Asana's functionality in creative ways that Asana doesn't yet provide. In turn, this rich ecosystem of apps, integrations, and scripts helps us ensure that Asana can support every customer use case out there – no matter how big or small the team, and no matter which tools or workflows they use. The API team at Asana builds the Developer Platform that makes this possible; we own the gateway that facilitates data flow in and out of Asana
- We’re looking for an experienced Technical Lead to help us make our Developer Platform come to life, driving execution and technical vision for the team
- Your scope will range from assisting product teams in exposing new functionality via the API, to overseeing foundational changes to our API’s core features and security model, to rearchitecting the underlying API frameworks for simplicity and ease-of-use, to mentoring and growing the engineers and developer advocates on the team
- Set the technical strategy for the API platform within Asana and advocate for engineering-driven investments, with a vision for keeping our systems flexible and maintainable to meet customer needs now and in the future
- Drive the team to continually and holistically better itself, enabling the engineers around you to deliver at a high velocity while helping them grow their skills in the process
- Be a key collaborator with other groups in Engineering and a technical counterpart to the API team’s Engineering Manager, serving as a public face for API engineering and representing our interests across team boundaries
- Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and User Research to deeply understand developer needs, and then propose elegant solutions to meet them
- Own and shape the guidelines for what good API design looks like, partnering with product engineering teams to help them implement those best practices in a self-serve manner
- Develop across the entire stack to make developers’ experiences better by writing clean, beautiful code and leaving things better than you found them: this includes writing Scala, Javascript, and Typescript
Our take
Asana is a web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work. Acting as a unified hub, it empowers teams to effortlessly generate projects, delegate responsibilities, set deadlines, and foster direct task-related communication, transcending the inefficiencies of traditional email-based coordination.
Despite facing competition from established players like SmartSheet in its market, Asana has navigated its path, bolstered by a successful Initial Public Offering in 2020 and a track record of startup triumphs. This strategic prowess has propelled Asana to amass a robust clientele exceeding 100,000 organizations, boasting notable entities such as Uber and Air France among its ranks.
Since its inception, Asana has undergone exponential growth, with its reach extending to offices sprawled across four continents worldwide. This expansion not only underscores its global footprint but also signifies its commitment to fostering diverse talent pools and catering to a broad spectrum of clients.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2020
$200m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2018
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $414.4m
Company benefits
- Benefits - From comprehensive health benefits including mental health programs and coaching to our in-house culinary program and supportive parental leave policies, our benefits are intentionally designed to ensure that you are energized, focused, and thriving
- Development: We know that growth isn’t always linear, so we’ll support you in achieving your personal and professional goals. You’ll have the opportunity to take on big responsibilities that impact our success as a company and challenge you in new and fulfilling ways.
- Career growth: Your growth at Asana centers on ownership, access, and choice. All employees can tap into resources that support their growth and their team’s growth in the way that works best for their unique needs.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dan Rogers
(CEO)Prior to joining Asana in 2025, Dan was the CEO of LaunchDarkly, a President at Rubrik, and the CMO at ServiceNow and Symantec.
Aziz Megji
(CFO)Aziz joined Asana in 2024 as the Head of Strategic Finance & IR, moving into the role of CFO in 2026. Previously, they worked at RingCentral as an SVP of Finance, at NVIDIA as a Senior Director of Corporate Development and at Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a VP of Corporate Development.
Arnab Bose
(CPO)Prior to joining Asana in 2025, Arnab spent 6 years at Okta, joining as an SVP of Product Management before moving into the role of CPO. They were also an Advisor at Codified and a VP of Product Management at Quip.
Prachi Gore
(CMO)Prior to joining Asana in 2025, Prachi spent nearly 6 years at Checkr as a VP then Senior VP of Marketing. They also spent nearly 4 years at Smart Recruiters as a VP of Demand Generation then Marketing.
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