Senior Software Engineering Manager - Full Stack (Slack)

Leadout Capital; San Francisco (CA); Sur place; USD 180 000 - 240 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Slack is seeking a Sr Engineering Manager to lead two teams within the Architecture and Systems organization. The role focuses on backend and frontend client infrastructure that powers Slack's webapp and APIs, while maintaining code health and a solid foundation for product teams.

The manager will align stakeholders, champion multi-quarter initiatives, and advocate for career growth within a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.

Qualifications

• Experience coaching and mentoring a high performing engineering team.
• Experience designing, scaling, and operating backend services and distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of API design principles for long-lived client contracts.
• Deep knowledge of browsers and frontend technologies.
• Ability to make rapid technical decisions in a fast-moving environment.

Responsabilités

• Collaborate to set long-term vision and execution strategy.
• Define, monitor, and report quarterly team deliverables.
• Represent the team in planning, product, and leadership meetings.
• Coordinate with cross-functional partners to drive alignment with business goals.
• Identify opportunities to improve productivity, performance, and code health.

Connaissances

Team leadership

Backend design

Distributed systems

API design

Frontend knowledge

Decision making under ambiguity

Description du poste

The Experience:

Slack is looking for a seasoned engineering leader to join our Backend and Frontend Client Infrastructure teams within the Architecture and Systems organization. These teams are responsible for building core modules and APIs that power the Slack client, and maintaining code health and the foundation which Slack's webapp developers use to build and ship features.

As a Sr Engineering Manager, this person will lead two teams of skilled and high performing engineers focused on contributing to high impact Slack business objectives while advocating for and maintaining a clear roadmap and vision for the team. This person should have a backend or full-stack technical background.

A key part of this role will be to develop relationships with stakeholders including engineers, engineering managers, and product managers in order to weigh in and make trade offs against existing business priorities as well as champion team interests which may include maintaining momentum for large scale, multi-quarter initiatives.

What you will be doing:

• 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 the opportunities to improve productivity, performance, and code health through a consistently evolving and modern frontend infrastructure
• Mentor, teach, and coach the team while supporting and advocating for the career development and interests of the individuals on the team, including driving promotion readiness and calibration
• Be a key stakeholder and strategic partner in business critical project areas such as security and product
• Champion AI-assisted development practices across the team, and identify opportunities to apply them to both engineering and operational workflows

You're Our Person If:

• 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
• The ability to understand and explain the technical trade-offs and complexities regarding concepts like the service worker, boot frameworks, and web sockets.
• The ability to weigh several - often conflicting - constraints and make rapid technical decisions in a fast moving environment.