Backend Senior and Staff Software Engineer, Slackforce

About the Team

The Slackforce team is seeking Senior and Staff Backend Engineers to design and build the systems that power seamless collaboration between Slack and Salesforce. We build the integration that brings Salesforce data and workflows directly into Slack, while embedding Slack conversations inside the Salesforce UI. Our work is central to how enterprises collaborate: creating the connective tissue that makes two of the world’s most widely used platforms feel like one seamless system.

We are looking for Backend Engineers 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 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 engineers that understand that simplicity and reliability are aspects of a system to be carefully calculated with every decision made.

What you will be doing:

• You'll brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers on your team to conceptualize and build new features for our large (and growing!) user base.
• You’ll produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant impact on the business.
• You’ll actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• You'll assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues.
• You'll mentor other engineers and deeply review code.
• You’ll improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

What you should have:

• A related technical degree required
• You’ve been building web applications professionally for 7+ years.
• You have experience with functional or imperative programming languages — e.g., PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, Go, or C.
• You can contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team.
• You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.
• You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.
• You possess solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
• You embrace the hybrid working model; collaborating in office at least 10 days per quarter.

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