Staff Backend Software Engineer, Salesforce
Architecture & Systems, Slack
$230.8-334.6k
World's leading CRM provider
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World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$230.8-334.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for an engineer who is passionate about the backend technologies powering client boot, improving fundamental and core Common Slack Objects that all product engineers depend on (What is a user?), and who is eager to improve backend code safety across the organization
- You’ve been building web applications professionally for 7+ years
- You have experience with functional or imperative programming languages -- e.g., PHP/Hack, Python, Ruby, Go, C, or Java
- You can lead technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions across the organization
- You write and have strong opinions on understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability
- You’re excited about diving into ambiguous and unfamiliar areas of the backend codebase, leaving it better than you found it
- You have strong written and verbal communication skills and can tailor conversations to a diverse audience; equally comfortable communicating with your immediate team, other engineers (both backend and client), as well as non-technical Slack peers
- You have an eagerness to learn, but a similar excitement to teach and mentor
- You have an avid curiosity to investigate and understand not only your team’s pain points but pain points for all of Slack users through data, client metrics, user-reported defects, escalations, and through participating and remediating incidents
- You understand that the perfect solution is informed by the people who will be building on your work, rather than being purely dependent on technical merits. Empathy is a feature
What the job involves
- Slack is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Backend Architecture and Systems team within the Application Architecture and Systems organization
- This team is responsible for bridging the reliability and performance needs of Slack’s Desktop, Mobile, and Web clients with the capabilities of our Backend
- Our team establishes development principles and abstractions meant to deliver reliable, high-performance features and clients
- This engineer should love keeping up to date with the evolving capabilities of PHP/Hack and form opinions about how the codebase should evolve over time, increasing developer efficiency and iterating on best practices with the rest of the backend teams
- Our work depends on working closely with other teams at Slack, so communication and collaboration skills are a must
- This is an opportunity to work on a team of skilled and impactful engineers that directly affects how Slack’s clients interact and scale with its Backend
- You’ll own the technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems, producing RFCs and other technical documentation for review
- You’ll leverage insightful metrics to measure and lead cross-functional backend initiatives associated with increasing backend productivity, reliability, and performance
- You’ll bridge Slack’s Client experiences with the evolving state of our Backend
- You’ll maintain and improve the abstractions and developmental paradigms that power the Slack backend, leaving it better than you found it
- You’ll proactively identify and remedy communication gaps and issues to reach alignments for complex issues across diverse audiences and influence organizational goals and strategy
- You’ll dive deep into the code through root cause analysis, code reviews, paired programming, and ensure adherence to best practices including the development and execution of tests
- You’ll be an engaging and active storyteller. Celebrate and broadcast your team wins, challenges, learnings, and observations through Slack posts, talks, executive presentations, and through mentorship across the wider Slack developer community
Application process
- End Date: June 27, 2025
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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
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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