Senior Staff Software Engineer, iOS

salesforce.com, inc.; California, San Francisco (MO, CA); On-site; USD 251,000 - 385,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a seasoned infrastructure engineer to enhance the Slack iOS client, utilized by millions daily. This role focuses on building sustainable infrastructure, guiding feature engineers, and ensuring high-quality code. Candidates should have extensive experience in iOS applications, deep knowledge of Swift, and a passion for mentoring others. Join a forward-thinking team that values creativity and collaboration, where your contributions will significantly impact the future of communication technology. If you're ready to tackle complex challenges and thrive in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in building and maintaining complex iOS applications.
• Deep expertise with Swift and iOS frameworks.
• Experience driving technical design and culture across their function.

Responsibilities

• Build strong, sustainable infrastructure for the Slack iOS client.
• Lead engineers specializing in UI frameworks or data/networking infrastructure.
• Mentor and grow other iOS engineers.

Skills

Swift

iOS Frameworks

iOS Architectural Patterns (VIPER)

API Design

Debugging and Performance Optimization

Scripting (Python/Bash)

CI/CD Pipelines

Automated Testing Tools

Tools

Xcode

Instruments

Job description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you've come to the right place.

We are looking for people who are passionate about building strong, sustainable infrastructure for the Slack iOS client, which is used by millions of people every day. The iOS Product Infrastructure team enables feature engineers at Slack to tackle complicated problems quickly without needing to reinvent the wheel. We're looking for lead engineers who specialize in either UI frameworks or data/networking infrastructure.

As an infrastructure engineer, you like building for the long term and value patterns and structures that allow for maximum flexibility in a constantly evolving product. You excel in leading others and derive joy from mentoring and growing other iOS engineers. You set a high bar for the technical design and code quality of your team. You demonstrate exceptional ownership of not only the area of your team, but across Slack's entire iOS codebase. You have a "can do" demeanor and nothing is beneath you or outside your responsibilities because you do what it takes to deliver the highest quality code and the most impactful features. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.

What You Should Have

• 10+ years of experience building and maintaining complex iOS applications, in a team environment directing and guiding the efforts of a functional group through delegation to senior technical leaders
• Deep expertise with Swift and iOS frameworks
• Strong understanding of iOS architectural patterns, such as VIPER
• Recognized lead for a number of features or systems that solve large, open-ended problems, often involving new or innovative approaches
• Experience driving technical design and culture across their function, contributing to organization-wide technical decision-making and strategy
• Solid experience designing scalable and maintainable APIs for shared components, frameworks, or systems
• Extensive experience debugging and fixing crashes, UI rendering issues, and performance problems on iOS using Xcode, Instruments, and other tools
• Experience with Combine, Swift Concurrency (async/await, actors), and dependency injection frameworks (e.g., Needle, Resolver)
• Experience with scripting (Python/bash etc)
• Experience with running a/b experimentation
• Ability to monitor and improve app KPIs such as launch time, app hangs, and crash-free sessions
• A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
• An interest in guiding, influencing, and growing other engineers and teams
• Deep familiarity with the Xcode ecosystem, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing tools
• A product-minded approach to engineering, with an eye for software quality and an ability to connect technical initiatives to business impact

Bonus Points

• Experience using Slack and a keen interest in making it better
• A passion for creating accessible applications
• Prior experience on a centralized infrastructure team, serving both internal developer customers and external users

Team Blog Posts

• Stabilize, Modularize, Modernize: Scaling Slack's Mobile Codebases
• Scaling Slack's Mobile Codebases: Modernization
• Extending Anvil for Fun and Profit
• Developing in the Open

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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $230,700 to $351,800.For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $251,900 to $384,100.Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.