Staff Software Engineering, Frontend (Slack)

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Slack is your Digital HQ – a place where work flows between your people, systems, partners, and customers. From Fortune 100 companies to corner markets, millions of people around the world use Slack to connect their teams, unify their systems, and drive their business forward.

Slack breaks down communication silos inside and beyond your organization by bringing teams and tools together around common goals, projects and processes in channels and in Slack Connect. It removes the limits of physical walls, giving people the flexibility to do their best work where, when and how they prefer with features like huddles and clips. And it empowers everyone to automate common tasks with apps and workflows. In this digital-first era, Slack’s mission is to make people’s work lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.

• Slack delivers 300k+ messages per second

• 77% of the fortune 100 use Slack

• 150+ countries have daily active users in Slack

• To date, 1.79 trillion messages have been sent on Slack

• 2.65 billion actions are taken in Slack each day

• Slack has 200k+ paid customers

• Users are spending a combined 243 million minutes per week in Huddles

• A taste of our scale and reach:

About the Team
The Slack Platform team is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to lead development of high-impact, cross-platform experiences. Our team is central to extending Slack's core functionality and fostering a robust ecosystem. We own the in-Slack experience, developer surfaces and architecture for all 3rd-party integrations and apps, platform interactivity as well as Work Objects—a key feature enabling direct, seamless interaction with external apps and data right inside Slack. Our mission is to build the connective tissue that makes two of the world’s most widely used platforms feel like one unified system, fundamentally improving how enterprises collaborate.

What you will be doing:

• You'll brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers on your team to conceptualize and build new features for our large (and growing!) user base

• You’ll produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant impact on the business

• You’ll actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.

• You’ll work cross-team and cross-functionally to arrive to the best possible outcome for the business

• You'll assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues

• You'll mentor other engineers and deeply review code

• You’ll improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

What you should have

• 7+ years of experience writing client-side Typescript, Redux and React

• Expertise in building complex layouts with CSS and HTML

• Experience building and debugging complex systems in a team environment

• Experience with modern browser technologies

• Strong UX and design sensibilities, and a desire to sweat the small stuff

• Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and empathy

• Self-­awareness and a desire to continually improve

• A related technical degree required

Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, why not say hello?

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