147 applicants

Company

Original Job Post

Slack · 3 days ago

Sr Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$224K/yr - $342K/yr

12+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Lead technical strategy and efforts for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches.

Set the vision for strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects and programs.

Direct and guide the efforts of a pillar or functional group through delegation to senior technical leaders.

Proactively identify and remedy communication gaps and issues to reach alignments for complex issues.

Actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.

Train engineers for incident response and command.

Be a trusted coach and mentor, actively building new leaders at Slack through continuous feedback.

Qualification

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Required

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.

You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

Company

Slack

Glassdoor

4.0

Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.

Founded in 2009

San Francisco, California, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

http://www.slack.com

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