Software Engineering Architect, Salesforce

Backend

$251.9-384.1k

Salary for California-based roles

PHP

Python

Java

iOS

Linux

Android

Ruby

MySQL

Slack

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

World's leading CRM provider

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World's leading CRM provider

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales

Be an early applicant

$251.9-384.1k

Salary for California-based roles

PHP

Python

Java

iOS

Linux

Android

Ruby

MySQL

Slack

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsLead generationAnalyticsCloud ComputingSales

Company mission

To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You’ve been building web applications professionally for 12+ years
You have experience with functional or imperative programming languages -- e.g., PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, C, or Java
You can own technical architecture discussions and lead technical decisions for an engineering organization
You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability
You are an excellent communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to senior leadership and other engineers is no problem for you
You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval
A related technical degree required

What the job involves

Slack is looking for a Software Engineering Architect, Backend to build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems as we rapidly scale our product and organization
We have backend engineers in almost every team across Slack, and in that role, you’ll be making some of the most significant decisions for the company
We build our app using reliable tools that our team knows and trusts, including PHP/Hack, Java, MySQL, and Linux
Expertise in these areas is a huge plus, but having familiarity with other common web languages (such as Python or Ruby) and other relational databases are fine substitutes
We’re a collaborative team who genuinely enjoys working together with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, frontend, iOS, Android, automation, and quality engineers to make Slack a better product
We are looking for an architect that understands that simplicity and reliability are aspects of a system to be carefully calculated with every decision made
You’ll lead technical strategy and efforts for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that have an impact on an entire engineering function and solve large open-ended problems
You’ll set the vision for strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs across the engineering organization
You’ll direct and guide the efforts of a pillar or functional group through delegation to senior technical leaders
You'll proactively identify and remedy communication gaps and issues to reach alignments for complex issues across diverse audience and influence organizational goals and strategy
You’ll actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems
You'll train engineers for incident response and command
You'll be a trusted coach and mentor, actively building new leaders at Slack through continuous feedback

Our take

Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.

By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.

Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-8% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Trustpilot (1.5)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jun 2001

$46.9m

SERIES D

Nov 1999

$13.2m

SERIES C

Total funding: $64.5m

Company benefits

With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Marc Benioff

(Chair & CEO)

Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.

Parker Harris

(CTO)

Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.

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