Staff Software Engineer, Asana
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CA$211-269k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Organizing work in one connected space
Be an early applicant
Organizing work in one connected space
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$211-269k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable the world's teams to work together effortlessly.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software development experience with 2+ years mentoring/coaching other engineers on impactful software projects
- Experience working in ambiguous and complex technical spaces and creating clarity and alignment with partners and stakeholders
- Have a track record of designing and implementing solutions to complex business problems. You have skillfully influenced and got buy-in from stakeholders and other teams to adopt/implement these solutions
- Comfortable and autonomously debugging and fixing tricky issues in various parts of the software stack, particularly on the backend
- Have a strong breath of knowledge of software concepts and design patterns that you can comfortably apply to make technical solutions scalable and robust
- Excited about mentoring and coaching teammates and stakeholders and contributing to leveling the team
- Experience driving projects of medium to large complexity
- You have a continuous improvement mindset and are never satisfied with the status quo, whether it's about the architecture, the code or the team's processes
What the job involves
- The Product team builds features end-to-end
- From designing our data models to implementing the subtle interaction behaviors that differentiate good software from great software
- We work closely with UI designers and are supported by our infrastructure team
- We aim to delight users with both large new features and smaller, daily product enhancements—thanks to our continuous deployment architecture
- We want to create a superlative user experience, down to the smallest details
- We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Data Management team in our Vancouver Office
- The team plays a vital role in understanding the Asana data graph and ensuring the integrity and compliant use of data across the product
- You’ll work on essential features touching the entire customer data lifecycle, such as data exports, object archiving, trashing & recovery, and audit logs
- All of these are fundamental for Enterprise customers and involve handling and managing large-scale datasets to ensure smooth and secure operations
- Being part of this team will provide you with the opportunity to dive deep into Asana’s data graph, gaining a deep understanding of how data is managed at scale
- While compliance is a key focus, our work goes beyond and empowers customers to efficiently manage their data across large, complex environments
- You will implement efficient algorithms for handling vast datasets and work closely with cross-functional teams, including core infrastructure, product, and legal, to deliver scalable, secure solutions
- Work in a high-performance, dynamic team with a strong focus on velocity and software quality
- Contribute to building a complex SaaS application that is a market leader in its segment
- Work closely with Product Managers and Engineers to create simple and scalable technical solutions that have a strong impact on the application’s architecture and design
- Drive technical strategies that cross over other team surfaces and align with such teams and stakeholders to get buy-in and implement such strategies
- Be exposed to Asana’s core infrastructure, particularly how data is represented, stored and deleted in the storage layer
- Put to practice your strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms and scalability patterns in various technical aspects of the platform such as working with asynchronous jobs and efficiently traversing the Asana Work Graph
- Work with legal to implement data ownership rules, requiring simple and effective technical solutions to make this process easy and clear to customers
- Drive large, impactful projects, delivering features that will be rolled out and used in large organizations
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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
- Growth - 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
- Development - We believe in providing everyone with coaching and mentorship. You’ll have access to Conscious Leadership training, success guides, free executive coaching, and our manager training and enablement program
Company values
- Mission: We are purpose-driven people, dedicated to serving something beyond ourselves. Having mission as a value also allows us to continually ground ourselves in why we’re building Asana
- Do great things, fast: We commit to being great at the things we do and doing them fast, without sacrificing one for the other
- Clarity: Our product and culture aim to ensure that teams know who is doing what, by when, and why, which unlocks the best work experiences and outcomes
- Co-creation: Great achievements are almost always the result not of one, but many. We bring our best, let go of egos, and work with empathy and trust to do great things together
- Give and take responsibility: Having integrity around our commitments means seizing exciting opportunities, and also owning it when we have to deprioritize something. We accept full ownership of our commitments, and empower and trust others to achieve theirs
- Mindfulness: We focus on the present and aim to give ourselves time to reflect and space to integrate what we learn. These practices allow us to collectively learn from and improve in all that we do, and to continually evolve our culture
- Reject false tradeoffs: We stay curious, creative, and open to new perspectives. Choosing between two sides of an extreme results in losing the benefits of one, so we commit to searching for a third way that incorporate the truths of both
- Be real (with yourself and others): We know that our best work is tied to authenticity, which allows for growth and collaboration. We bring our whole selves to work and commit to building an inclusive environment in which all people feel safe and excited about being their full selves
- Heartitude: We embrace what makes us human, take time to play and have fun, and create meaningful experiences for their own sake. Why do we have a unicorn flying across our product when we mark a task complete? The real question is - why not?
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Dustin Moskovitz
(Co-Founder & CEO)A Harvard economics graduate, Dustin co-founded Facebook in 2004 before branching off in 2008 to found Asana. They are also the co-founder of Open Philanthropy Project and Good Ventures.
Justin Rosenstein
(Co-Founder)Previously Engineering Manager at Facebook and a Product Manager at Google. Currently Co-Founder of One Project.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Asana
- We celebrate and support our individual identities
- Our employee resource groups are thriving communities that foster trusted, safe spaces for underrepresented groups and allies
- Our ERGs consist of AsanaWomen and AsanaWomen EMEA, Team Rainbow for LGBTQIA+ Asanas, our multicultural ERG Gradient, Blacsana for Black Asanas, and Asanapac for Pan Asian and Pacific Islander Asanas.
- Ask Me Anything sessions: Our leadership team and external thought leaders hold open AMAs that forge connection and bring unique perspectives to the table
- Real Talk event series: Asanas come together to discuss hard, often uncomfortable topics, such as experiences around identity and workplace challenges, through these candid, open conversations.
- Gender-inclusive spaces: From gender-neutral restrooms in nearly every office, to gender pronouns in our product, we recognize and embrace all identities.
- Asana Acts Against Racism: In our continued efforts to be anti-racist, we are taking a harder look at our programs and policies that support diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’re taking action along these lines: Take care, take responsibility, take action
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