Senior Prototyping Engineer, Android Mobile

100 Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 345,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Salesforce’s Slack Mobile team is seeking a Staff Engineer to shape Slack’s mobile product. As a Prototyping Engineer, you’ll embed as a leader on greenfield, zero-to-one initiatives, guiding product and design through engineering work that creates the first versions of newly imagined features for Slack’s mobile experience.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, and mobile engineers to drive opportunities at scale, mentor senior engineers, and promote best practices for maintainable,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building complex, high-craft Android applications at scale.
• Deep expertise in Kotlin framework and modern Android development.
• Strong understanding of Android architecture, lifecycle, concurrency, networking, and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering development of mobile experiences used by millions of users daily across multiple teams.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives from early exploration to production rollout and long-term evolution.
• Prototype features to define mobile user experience for Slack’s biggest opportunities.
• Collaborate with Product and Design to balance user needs, technical constraints, and maintainability.
• Provide technical leadership, reviews, and mentorship beyond your immediate team.
• Establish and evangelize best practices for mobile development and operational excellence.

Skills

Kotlin

Android development

Architecture

Concurrency

Performance optimization

Leadership

Mentorship

Ownership

Education

Related technical degree

Tools

Jetpack Compose

Combine Concurrency

Dependency injection (Needle/Resolver)

Job description

Salesforce’s Slack Mobile team is seeking a Staff Engineer to shape Slack’s mobile product. As a Prototyping Engineer, you’ll embed as a leader on greenfield, zero-to-one initiatives, guiding product and design through engineering work that creates the first versions of newly imagined features for Slack’s mobile experience.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Design, Backend, and mobile engineers to drive opportunities at scale, mentor senior engineers, and promote best practices for maintainable,