Senior Software Engineer, Web App Performance

Uncover; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 176,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health, wellness & fitness

Career coaching & support

Inclusive family building benefits

Long-term savings or retirement plans

In-office culinary options

Job summary

Asana is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Performance & Scalability team in Vancouver. You will lead frontend infrastructure initiatives to boost web app performance and scalability for our largest customers, mentor engineers, and collaborate across infra and product teams.

The role emphasizes tackling complex tech challenges, guiding impactful frontend projects, and communicating technical investments to business stakeholders. Office-centric hybrid schedule based in Vancouver.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in full-time professional software development, working with large codebases.
• 3+ years of experience in modern frontend web technologies, with a focus on frontend infrastructure (data fetching, routing, build systems).
• Experience leading challenging technical projects and driving changes in complex systems.
• Excellent communication skills for collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
• Passion for web performance optimization and solving scalability challenges.
• Ability to approach ambiguous problems with curiosity and a structured methodology.
• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead, design, and execute technical initiatives to significantly improve web application performance.
• Investigate and resolve high-impact scalability issues within the product and frameworks.
• Work across the shared tech stack, including frontend infrastructure, data loading, and asynchronous executions.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure teams to enhance visibility into scalability and performance problems.
• Mentor other engineers to address root causes of performance and scalability issues.
• Provide mentorship and guidance as a frontend infrastructure expert.
• Drive technical projects, navigate complex code and systems, and implement necessary changes.
• Communicate investments and business impact to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

6+ years software development

Frontend infrastructure

Leadership of tech projects

Communication with stakeholders

Mentoring engineers

AI tools curiosity

Job description

We are dedicated to ensuring Asana's web application remains fast, efficient, and scalable for all customers, regardless of size. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Performance & Scalability team in Vancouver, you will play a critical role in both improving web application performance and ensuring feature scalability for our largest customers. You will tackle complex technical challenges, lead key frontend infrastructure initiatives, and mentor other engineers across our shared tech stack. By collaborating with infrastructure teams and utilizing cutting-edge web technologies, you will enhance Asana's infrastructure, optimize customer experiences, and elevate our technical excellence. This role is based in our Vancouver office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

What you’ll achieve

• Lead, design, and execute technical initiatives to significantly improve Asana's web application performance.
• Investigate and resolve high-impact scalability issues within Asana’s product and frameworks.
• Work across the entire shared tech stack, including frontend infrastructure, data loading, and asynchronous executions.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure teams to enhance visibility into scalability and performance problems.
• Empower other engineers to identify and address root causes of performance and scalability issues.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on frontend infrastructure, performance optimization, and feature scaling, providing mentorship and guidance.
• Drive technical projects, navigating complex code and systems and implementing necessary changes.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, translating technical investments to business impact.

About you

• 6+ years of experience in full-time professional software development, working with large codebases.
• 3+ years of experience in modern frontend web technologies, with a focus on frontend infrastructure (data fetching, routing, build systems).
• Experience leading challenging technical projects and driving changes in complex systems.
• Excellent communication skills for collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
• Passion for web performance optimization and solving scalability challenges.
• Ability to approach ambiguous problems with curiosity and a structured methodology.
• Demonstrated sound judgment in balancing speed of development with code quality and maintainability.
• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision‑making.
• Experience or willingness to mentor other engineers on technical issues.

At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

What we’ll offer

Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit. For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $176,000 - $200,000 CAD. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be modified.

In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits.

If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include:

• Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits
• Career coaching & support
• Inclusive family building benefits
• Long-term savings or retirement plans
• In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences

These are just some of the benefits we offer, and benefits may vary based on role, country, and local regulations.

If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

About us

Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong. We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an environment where all people feel that they are respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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