Staff Software Engineer, Admin Area

Asana; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 211,000 - 269,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software firm is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Vancouver office. The role involves building tools for administrators and contributing to complex projects across the stack. Candidates should have over 5 years of development experience, strong mentoring skills, and a track record in designing solutions for complex problems. The position offers a hybrid work schedule and competitive compensation, with a base salary range of CAD 211,000 - 269,000, along with comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Mental health and wellness benefits

Career coaching

Inclusive family building benefits

Retirement plans

In-office culinary options

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience with 2+ years mentoring/coaching.
• Experience in ambiguous and complex technical spaces.
• Track record of designing and implementing solutions to complex business problems.
• Comfortable troubleshooting backend issues.
• Strong knowledge of software concepts and design patterns.
• Experience driving medium to large complexity projects.
• Continuous improvement mindset.

Responsibilities

• Work in a high-performance team focused on software quality.
• Develop tools for administrators to manage Asana instances.
• Drive technical strategies impacting multiple teams.
• Make significant contributions across the entire stack.
• Lead impactful projects for large organizations.

Skills

Software development experience

Mentoring/coaching

Debugging

Software design patterns

Project management

Tools

Typescript

Javascript

Scala

React

Job description

The Product team builds features end-to-end. From designing our data models to implementing the subtle interaction behaviors that differentiate good software from great software. We work closely with UI designers and are supported by our infrastructure team. We aim to delight users with both large new features and smaller, daily product enhancements—thanks to our continuous deployment architecture. We want to create a superlative user experience, down to the smallest details.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Admin Foundations team in our Vancouver Office. The team plays a vital role in developing tools for Administrators to manage their Asana instance at Scale while establishing frameworks/patterns for Asana engineers to easily create admin controls for the features they develop.

Being part of this team will provide you with the opportunity to get a deep understanding of Asana’s administrative controls and permissions. This comes with an exposure to various other surfaces of the product that will enable you to work with different teams. You will also be working across different levels of our technical stack, from frontend tools like React to backend systems like the remote jobs framework.

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:

• Work in a high-performance, dynamic team with a strong focus on velocity and software quality
• Contribute to building a complex SaaS application that is a market leader in its segment
• Work closely with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver delightful software and tools for customers to help administer their Asana instance at scale.
• Drive technical strategies that cross over other team surfaces and align with such teams and stakeholders to get buy-in and implement such strategies.
• Make significant individual contributions by developing across the entire stack and leaving things better than you found them – this includes writing Typescript, Javascript and occasionally Scala.
• Drive large, impactful projects, delivering features that will be rolled out and used in large organizations

About you:

• Have 5+ years of software development experience with 2+ years mentoring/coaching other engineers on impactful software projects.
• Experience working in ambiguous and complex technical spaces and creating clarity and alignment with partners and stakeholders.
• Have a track record of designing and implementing solutions to complex business problems. You have skillfully influenced and got buy-in from stakeholders and other teams to adopt/implement these solutions.
• Comfortable and autonomously debugging and fixing tricky issues in various parts of the software stack, particularly on the backend.
• Have a strong breath of knowledge of software concepts and design patterns that you can comfortably apply to make technical solutions scalable and robust.
• Have experience driving projects of medium to large complexity.
• You have a continuous improvement mindset and are never satisfied with the status quo, whether it's about the architecture, the code or the team's processes
• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision‑making.

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 $211,000 - $269,000 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.

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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.

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