Staff Software Engineer, Android

15 Hours ago • 6 Years + • $211,500 PA - $334,600 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, Android at Slack, you will be responsible for taking the Slack for Android app to the next level. You will help shape the engineering culture of the team, work closely with other managers and engineers, provide coaching, and drive alignment while shipping features. The role involves crafting delightful user experiences and making them more productive. Millions of people use Slack for Android every week, so the ideal candidate will strive to make the user experience as enjoyable as possible. The role requires collaborating with product and design teams, and attention to detail, building for the long term and valuing patterns and structures.
Must have:
  • At least 6+ years of mobile engineering experience
  • Experience developing with Kotlin
  • Understanding of Android framework components
  • Strong computer science fundamentals
  • Experience working with product and design teams
  • Knowledge of Android API levels
  • Experience developing highly performant Java code
  • A disciplined approach to development
  • Familiarity with the Android tool ecosystem
  • Understanding of best practices for concurrency
  • Desire to learn and improve
  • Related technical degree
Good to have:
  • Experience using Slack
  • Experience building design systems
  • Passion for creating accessible applications
  • Passion for contributing to the Android community
  • Experience with reactive programming (e.g. RXJava)
Perks:
  • Wellbeing reimbursement
  • Generous parental leave
  • Adoption assistance
  • Fertility benefits
  • More benefits can be found on salesforcebenefits.com

Job Details

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About Salesforce

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About Slack
Slack is your Digital HQ – a place where work flows between your people, systems, partners, and customers. From Fortune 100 companies to corner markets, millions of people around the world use Slack to connect their teams, unify their systems, and drive their business forward.


Slack breaks down communication silos inside and beyond your organization by bringing teams and tools together around common goals, projects and processes in channels and in Slack Connect. It removes the limits of physical walls, giving people the flexibility to do their best work where, when and how they prefer with features like huddles and clips. And it empowers everyone to automate common tasks with apps and workflows. In this digital-first era, Slack’s mission is to make people’s work lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.

A taste of our scale and reach:

  • Slack delivers 300k+ messages per second

  • 77% of the fortune 100 use Slack

  • 150+ countries have daily active users in Slack

  • To date, 1.79 trillion messages have been sent on Slack

  • 2.65 billion actions are taken in Slack each day

  • Slack has 200k+ paid customers

  • Users are spending a combined 243 million minutes per week in Huddles

  • We're looking for people who are passionate about crafting phenomenal Android applications.


In the Core Mobile team, we make Slack the best mobile app to get work done from. We understand the differences in how people work on the go and build our app to serve those users uniquely. We’re a horizontal pillar containing both iOS & Android engineers serving our Message, Admin & Trust and Growth teams.

We are looking for product engineers to take the Slack for Android app to the next level. You’ll help shape the engineering culture of the team, work closely with other managers and engineers in making trade-offs and building ambitious technical & product roadmaps, provide coaching for engineers, drive alignment between cross-functional stakeholders all while shipping features that not only delight our users but make them more productive as well. Slack for Android is used by millions of people every week - we need engineers who want to make that experience as enjoyable as possible.

You've been around for a few API levels and you know how to delight Android users. You've got an eye for the alluring Android design our users expect and an attention to detail down to the very last density independent pixel. You know your way around the View hierarchy and are eager to partner with Product and Design to craft efficient, performant, and delightful user experiences. You like building for the long term and value patterns and structures that allow for maximum flexibility in a constantly evolving product.

Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture; we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and above all, collaborative.

What You Should Have:

  • At least 6+ years of mobile engineering experience, ideally in a team environment

  • Experience developing with Kotlin

  • Extensive understanding of Android framework components and their respective lifecycles

  • Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and programming languages

  • Experience working closely with product teams, designers, and other developers to create a truly delightful mobile experience

  • Current and detailed knowledge of the capabilities of different Android API levels

  • Experience developing highly performant Java code and view layouts and the ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks

  • A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment

  • A familiarity with the Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking

  • An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading

  • A constant desire to improve, learn more and take things higher

  • A related technical degree required


Bonus Points

  • Experience using Slack and a keen interest in making it better

  • Experience building design systems to create reusable and scalable components

  • A passion for creating accessible applications

  • A passion for building and maintaining great open source projects or otherwise contributing to the Android community

  • Experience with reactive programming (e.g. RXJava)


Benefits & Perks
Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more!

Salesforce Information
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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $211,500 to $306,600.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $230,800 to $334,600.

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

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