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Overview

Backend Senior and Staff Software Engineer, Slackforce – Slack

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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.

About Slack

Slack is your Digital HQ – a place where work flows between your people, systems, partners, and customers. Slack helps teams connect, collaborate, and automate work with features like channels, Slack Connect, huddles, and clips. Its mission is to make people's work lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. This role is part of the Slackforce initiative, aligning Slack and Salesforce to bring Salesforce data and workflows into Slack and embed Slack conversations in the Salesforce UI.

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Posting Statement

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. Recruitment, hiring, and promotion decisions are based on merit, competence, and qualifications without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. Salary ranges and benefits are provided where required by law. More details about company benefits can be found at the Salesforce benefits site. This posting may include location-based salary ranges where applicable.