Senior Staff Android Architect — Lead Mobile Platform

Salesforce; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 218,000 - 401,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Staff Android Engineer (Architect) for Slack's mobile platform. You will shape the Android experience for millions of users, setting technical direction at scale and collaborating across product, design, and backend teams.

You’ll lead cross-functional initiatives, drive performance and reliability improvements, and mentor senior engineers while defining best practices for Android development in a fast-evolving, AI-powered environment.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, including extensive experience building and scaling Android applications in production.
• Deep experience designing systems and architectures that scale across many teams and long-lived codebases.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction purely through expertise and collaboration, driving alignment across executive and senior stakeholders and multiple teams.
• Deep, recognized expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development, with a track record of setting technical standards that others across the industry or company follow.
• Strong product intuition and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences.
• Excellent communication skills and a track record of influencing across Engineering, Product, and Design leadership, including executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year technical strategy behind experiences used by millions of Slack users every day, spanning multiple teams and the broader organization.
• Lead the most complex, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from early technical exploration through production rollout and long-term evolution, often spanning several teams or the entire org.
• Lead feature prototyping to define the Android user experience for Slack’s biggest opportunities.
• Partner with Product and Design leadership to shape experiences that balance user needs, technical constraints, and long-term maintainability at scale.
• Identify and drive org-wide opportunities to improve performance, reliability, accessibility, and developer productivity.
• Act as a top-level technical authority, influencing engineering decisions across the org through architecture reviews, technical strategy, and mentorship of staff and senior engineers.
• Set and evangelize best practices for Android development, testing, observability, and operational excellence across the broader engineering organization.
• Drive the evolution of Slack's mobile architecture and infrastructure to support future product investments, including AI-powered experiences.
• Mentor and grow other Staff and Senior engineers, and help cultivate technical leadership across the broader Android engineering community within Slack.

Skills

Kotlin

Android

Android architecture

Performance optimization

Mentorship

Leadership

Tools

Jetpack Compose

Android Studio

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Staff Android Engineer (Architect) for Slack's mobile platform. You will shape the Android experience for millions of users, setting technical direction at scale and collaborating across product, design, and backend teams.

You’ll lead cross-functional initiatives, drive performance and reliability improvements, and mentor senior engineers while defining best practices for Android development in a fast-evolving, AI-powered environment.