Software Engineering Architect, Backend

• Users spend over 10 hours connected and 2+ hours active in Slack every work day.

• 10M+ Daily Active Users in more than 150 countries.

• 1.5 billion messages are sent per month, half of those outside the United States.

• Every day we see over 3.5 million simultaneously connected users, over 3.5 billion web requests, over 42 billion database queries per day, and our systems see over 1 million queries/second in our caching tier.

• We have 8.8M+ app installations with 155,000 weekly active developers building on the platform.

• 90% of our paid teams on Slack actively use apps.

• 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. 

• 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

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