Software Engineer, Backend - Slack (Multiple Levels)

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Hiring at multiple levels.

About Slack

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.

A Taste Of Our Scale And Reach

• Users are spending a combined 243 million minutes per week in Huddles
• To date, 1.79 trillion messages have been sent on Slack
• 150+ countries have daily active users in Slack
• Slack has 200k+ paid customers
• 77% of the fortune 100 use Slack
• Slack delivers 300k+ messages per second
• 2.65 billion actions are taken in Slack each day

About The Team

We are looking for Backend Engineers to build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems as we rapidly scale our product and organization. We build our app using reliable tools that our team knows and trusts, including PHP/Hack, Java, MySQL, and Linux. Expertise in these areas is a huge plus, but having familiarity with other common web languages (such as Python or Ruby) and other relational databases are fine substitutes. We’re a collaborative team who genuinely enjoys working together with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, frontend, iOS, Android, automation, and quality engineers to make Slack a better product. We are looking for engineers that understand that simplicity and reliability are aspects of a system to be carefully calculated with every decision made.

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?

What You Will Be Doing

• You’ll produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant impact on the business.
• 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 actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• You’ll improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• 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.

What You Should Have

• You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.
• You’ve been building web applications professionally for 4+ years.
• You can contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team.
• You possess solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
• A related technical degree required
• You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.
• You have experience with functional or imperative programming languages — e.g., PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, C, or Java.

Benefits & Perks

Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

Salesforce Information

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