Staff Engineer, Electron & Desktop Infrastructure

Slack Enterprise; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 197,300 - 313,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental benefits

401(k) plan with company match

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Slack Enterprise is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join their Desktop team in San Francisco. This role involves building the Desktop Framework to enhance Slack's desktop client across platforms while ensuring security and performance.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience, particularly with React and Typescript, and possess deep knowledge of Chromium. Strong collaboration skills are necessary as this role interacts with various teams to drive technical standards and system health improvements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience writing client-side code for modern web applications.
• Deep experience with Chromium or large scale open source projects.
• Experience in maintaining high code quality and performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve developer productivity.
• Contribute to architectural decisions for product feature support.
• Maintain and improve core systems for the Slack desktop client.

Skills

React + Typescript

Chromium experience

Performance profiling

Experience with desktop development

Education

10+ years of experience in software engineering

Tools

Debugging tools

Job description

Slack Enterprise is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join their Desktop team in San Francisco. This role involves building the Desktop Framework to enhance Slack's desktop client across platforms while ensuring security and performance.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience, particularly with React and Typescript, and possess deep knowledge of Chromium. Strong collaboration skills are necessary as this role interacts with various teams to drive technical standards and system health improvements.