Software Engineer, Backend - Slack (Multiple Levels)

Job Category: Software Engineering

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.

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.

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. If this sounds like a good fit for you, why not say hello?

What You Will Be Doing:

• You will brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers on your team to conceptualize and build new features for our large user base.
• You will produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant impact on the business.
• You will actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• You will assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues.
• You will mentor other engineers and deeply review code.
• You will improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

What You Should Have:

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

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:

At Salesforce, we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives.

For Colorado-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $133,400 to $254,700.

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.