Senior Frontend Architect — Web Platform & Performance

salesforce.com, inc.; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 401,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce’s Slack Frontend Infrastructure team seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to lead frontend architecture, improving performance, scalability, and reliability at scale. You will partner with product, platform, and infrastructure to guide architectural decisions and mentor engineers.

You will own core frontend modules, including WebSocket infrastructure, boot processes, Redux/React layers, logging, and alerting. A people-centered leader with strong communication will thrive here.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with JavaScript and TypeScript in large-scale applications.
• Deep familiarity with browser performance profiling and debugging tools.
• Proficient in React, Redux, and modern web technologies, with an ability to explain trade-offs and architectural complexities clearly.
• Author code that establishes forward-looking patterns that multiple teams depend on and can contribute to effectively.
• Strong communication skills - written and verbal - with a collaborative and empathetic approach to cross-team work.
• Passion for mentorship, technical education, and knowledge sharing.
• A people-centered mindset - you understand that long-term technical success depends on the experience of the engineers who build on your work.
• A related technical degree required.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional frontend initiatives to improve performance, scalability, resiliency, and developer productivity.
• Design, maintain, and evolve core frontend modules - including Slack's WebSocket infrastructure, boot process, Redux/React layers, logging, and alerting systems.
• Drive key architectural decisions that adapt our frontend infrastructure to meet evolving product and platform needs.
• Identify and resolve communication and alignment challenges across teams and stakeholders.
• Represent and advocate for frontend technical strategy at an organizational level.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Redux

Frontend architecture

Mentorship/Leadership

Communication

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

WebSocket infrastructure

Redux tooling

React stack

Job description

Salesforce’s Slack Frontend Infrastructure team seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to lead frontend architecture, improving performance, scalability, and reliability at scale. You will partner with product, platform, and infrastructure to guide architectural decisions and mentor engineers.

You will own core frontend modules, including WebSocket infrastructure, boot processes, Redux/React layers, logging, and alerting. A people-centered leader with strong communication will thrive here.