Software Engineer, Backend (Staff & Senior) - Slack

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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
  
  

About The Team

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.

We are specifically looking for Staff and Senior level Backend engineers to join our Purchase Experience and our Canvas Editor teams!

The Purchase Experience team is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer! The purchase experience teams own the entirety of our home-grown self-serve billing architecture. This team commonly works on large, cross-functional projects and features, assisting in the delivery of new products to our customers. We also own the plans page, checkout page, and admin billing page, where we do experimentation to improve customer experiences and grow Slack ACV.

The Canvas Editor team is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer! The Editor team is responsible for developing and maintaining the core editing experience in Slack canvas, including real-time and multi-player editing, integrating with other Slack features such as user mentions, lists and workflows and supporting objects within the editor (code blocks, layouts, embeds, user mentions). Our backend projects support creating and updating these objects, ensuring we consider compliance and security requirements. We also focus on improving and maintaining performance and reliability of canvas APIs to offer the best experience for our users.

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:

• You’ve been building web applications professionally for 4+ years.
• You have experience with functional or imperative programming languages — e.g., PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, C, or Java.
• 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.
  
  

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For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $157,600 to $306,600.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $172,000 to $334,600.

We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you've come to the right place.