Staff Software Engineer, Asana
Admin Area
CA$211-269k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Work management platform
Open for applications
Work management platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$211-269k
More information about location
3 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
- Have 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
- Have 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
- Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making
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 Admin Foundations team in our Vancouver Office
- The team plays a vital role in developing tools for Administrators to manage their Asana instance at Scale while establishing frameworks/patterns for Asana engineers to easily create admin controls for the features they develop
- Being part of this team will provide you with the opportunity to get a deep understanding of Asana’s administrative controls and permissions
- This comes with an exposure to various other surfaces of the product that will enable you to work with different teams
- You will also be working across different levels of our technical stack, from frontend tools like React to backend systems like the remote jobs framework
- 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, Designers and Engineers to deliver delightful software and tools for customers to help administer their Asana instance at scale
- Drive technical strategies that cross over other team surfaces and align with such teams and stakeholders to get buy-in and implement such strategies
- Make significant individual contributions by developing across the entire stack and leaving things better than you found them – this includes writing Typescript, Javascript and occasionally Scala
- 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
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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