Senior Engineering Manager, Backend & Frontend Infra

Slack; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Slack seeks aSenior Engineering Manager to lead Backend and Frontend Client Infrastructure teams within Salesforce's Architecture and Systems organization. You will guide two high-performing teams, shaping a clear roadmap, and aligning with stakeholders across Slack engineering.

Ideal candidates have a backend or full-stack background, deep API design knowledge, and a track record of delivering high-visibility, high-traffic features.

Qualifications

• Experience coaching and mentoring a team of high performing and skilled engineers.
• Experience designing, scaling, and operating backend services and distributed systems that power high-traffic client applications.
• Deep knowledge of API design principles that support long-lived client contracts.
• Deep knowledge of browsers and frontend technologies.
• High resilience towards uncertainty, ambiguity, and operating with high stakes, occasionally with conflicting priorities and stakeholders.
• Ability to explain technical trade-offs and complexities such as service workers, boot frameworks, and web sockets.
• Ability to weigh conflicting constraints and make rapid technical decisions in a fast moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to set the long term vision and execution strategy by utilizing your technical knowledge.
• Define, monitor, and report against quarterly measures for team deliverables.
• Represent the team in planning, product, and leadership meetings within the organization and across Slack engineering.
• Regularly connect with cross functional partners across Slack engineering to drive alignment and execute against business goals.
• Understand opportunities and tradeoffs to including members of the team within product engineering owned initiatives.
• Represent and evangelize opportunities to improve productivity, performance, and code health through modern frontend infrastructure.
• Mentor, teach, and coach the team while supporting career development and promotion readiness.
• Be a key stakeholder in business critical project areas such as security and product.
• Champion AI-assisted development practices across the team and identify opportunities to apply them.

Skills

Team mentoring

Backend services

Distributed systems

API design

Frontend technologies

Technical decision making

Job description

Slack seeks aSenior Engineering Manager to lead Backend and Frontend Client Infrastructure teams within Salesforce's Architecture and Systems organization. You will guide two high-performing teams, shaping a clear roadmap, and aligning with stakeholders across Slack engineering.

Ideal candidates have a backend or full-stack background, deep API design knowledge, and a track record of delivering high-visibility, high-traffic features.