Senior Frontend Architect — Scale React/Redux at Enterprise

Slack Enterprise; Georgia; On-site; USD 218,000 - 401,000; Full time

Job summary

Slack is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead the frontend infrastructure for its desktop web client. You’ll guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to scale performance and reliability.

You’ll design and evolve core frontend modules, drive strategic direction, and advocate for frontend across the organization while shaping the future of Slack’s frontend stack.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with JavaScript and TypeScript in large-scale applications.
• Strong React/Redux knowledge and modern web technologies.
• Ability to explain trade-offs and architectural complexities clearly.
• Proven mentorship and cross-team collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional frontend initiatives to improve performance, scalability, resiliency, and developer productivity.
• Design, maintain, and evolve core frontend modules including WebSocket infrastructure, boot process, Redux/React layers, logging, and alerting.
• Drive architectural decisions to meet evolving product and platform needs.
• Represent and advocate for frontend technical strategy at an organizational level.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Redux

Frontend architecture

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Related technical degree

Job description

Slack is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead the frontend infrastructure for its desktop web client. You’ll guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to scale performance and reliability.

You’ll design and evolve core frontend modules, drive strategic direction, and advocate for frontend across the organization while shaping the future of Slack’s frontend stack.