Senior Staff Engineer, Salesforce

• We’re looking for lead engineers who specialize in either UI frameworks or data/networking infrastructure
• 10+ years of experience building and maintaining complex Android applications, in a team environment directing and guiding the efforts of a functional group through delegation to senior technical leaders
• Deep expertise with Kotlin and Android framework components
• Strong understanding of Android architectural patterns, such as MVVM/MVP/MVI
• Recognized lead for a number of features or systems that solve large, open-ended problems, often involving new or innovative approaches
• Experience driving technical design and culture across their function, contributing to organization-wide technical decision-making and strategy
• Solid experience designing scalable and maintainable APIs for shared components, frameworks, or systems
• Extensive experience debugging and fixing crashes, UI rendering issues, and performance problems on Android using Android Studio App Inspector, Perfetto, and other tools
• Experience with RxJava, Coroutines, Flows and dependency injection frameworks (e.g., Dagger, Anvil)
• Experience with scripting (Python/bash etc)
• Experience with running a/b experimentation
• Ability to monitor and improve app KPIs such as launch time, ANRs, and crash-free sessions
• A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
• An interest in guiding, influencing, and growing other engineers and teams
• Deep familiarity with the Android Studio ecosystem, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing tools
• A product-minded approach to engineering, with an eye for software quality and an ability to connect technical initiatives to business impact

Desirable

• We are looking for people who are passionate about building strong, sustainable infrastructure for the Slack Android client, which is used by millions of people every day. The Android Product Infrastructure team enables feature engineers at Slack to tackle complicated problems quickly without needing to reinvent the wheel
• As an infrastructure engineer, you like building for the long term and value patterns and structures that allow for maximum flexibility in a constantly evolving product
• You excel in leading others and derive joy from mentoring and growing other Android engineers
• You set a high bar for the technical design and code quality of your team
• You demonstrate exceptional ownership of not only the area of your team, but across Slack’s entire Android codebase
• You have a “can do” demeanor and nothing is beneath you or outside your responsibilities because you do what it takes to deliver the highest quality code and the most impactful features
• You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure