Software Engineer, Android - Slack (Senior/Staff)

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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.

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.

What You Should Have:

• At least 7+ years of mobile engineering experience, ideally in a team environment
• A related technical degree required
• Experience developing with Kotlin
• Extensive understanding of Android framework components and their respective lifecycles
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and programming languages
• Experience working closely with product teams, designers, and other developers to create a truly delightful mobile experience
• Current and detailed knowledge of the capabilities of different Android API levels
• Experience developing highly performant Java code and view layouts and the ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks
• A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
• A familiarity with the Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking
• An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
• A constant desire to improve, learn more and take things higher

Bonus Points

• Experience using Slack and a keen interest in making it better
• Experience building design systems to create reusable and scalable components
• A passion for creating accessible applications
• A passion for building and maintaining outstanding open source projects or otherwise adding to the Android community
• Experience with reactive programming (e.g. RXJava)

Benefits & Perks

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