Software Engineer, Full Stack - Slack (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 cheerful, and more productive.

A taste of our scale and reach:

• 77% of the fortune 100 use Slack

• 150+ countries have daily active users in Slack

• Slack delivers 300k+ messages per second

• 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

About the team

As a full stack engineer you’ll use your extensive knowledge to build our outstanding Slack and Salesforce Integration. You’ll work in both the Salesforce and Slack side. Bringing to bear Salesforce development experience to embed the Slack experience within Lightning as well as building out new capabilities in the Slack web client, a sophisticated in-browser application relied upon by millions of users every day! You will work with real-time data streams, engineer for performance across browsers, and delight people by making the best software we can imagine. You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, Application Engineering, and QA to spec, conceptualize, build, test and deploy new features for our large (and growing!) user base.

We’re currently hiring different levels of Full Stack Engineers based in Raleigh, NC to expand the UISF/Foyer team owning the Slack and Salesforce Integration.

What you will be doing

• You'll brainstorm with Product Managers and Designers to conceptualize new features.

• You'll collaborate with Application Engineering to build new features for our large-and-growing user base.

• You'll learn about new web technologies and discuss potential solutions to problems.

• You'll help our skilled support team triage bugs and take on production issues.

• You'll mentor other engineers and deeply review code.

What you should have

• Experience with Lightning Component Framework

• 4+ years of experience writing client-side JavaScript and React Framework

• 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 an affinity towards continuously improving.

Bonus Points

• Experience with Typescript.

• Experience with WebRTC.

• Experience investigating and improving JavaScript performance.

• Experience with WebSockets, Local Storage, or ES6.

• Experience in small startup environments.

• Experience designing web sites or applications.

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 apply?!