Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Android

Slack•San Francisco, CA

1d•$218,400 - $401,400

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Staff Android Engineer (Architect) to help define the future of Slack on mobile. This role involves serving as a top technical authority spanning multiple teams and organizations, setting strategy at an organizational scale, and shaping product and technical direction across Slack's mobile platform. The engineer will lead innovation on the biggest opportunities facing Slack's Android application, partnering closely with Product, Design, Backend, Infrastructure, iOS, and fellow mobile engineering leaders to deliver intuitive, delightful, and reliable experiences for millions of users worldwide. This position is part of Slack's Architect technical leadership track, combining deep hands-on technical leadership with organization-wide influence.

Requirements

Proven track record, at an Architect level, of leading large, ambiguous, org-spanning technical initiatives with significant measurable business impact.
Deep experience designing systems and architectures that scale across many teams and long-lived codebases over many years.
Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction purely through expertise and collaboration, driving alignment across executive and senior stakeholders and multiple teams.
15+ years of professional software engineering experience, including extensive experience building and scaling Android applications in production.
Deep, recognized expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development, with a track record of setting technical standards that others across the industry or company follow.
Expert understanding of Android architecture, application lifecycle, concurrency, networking, and performance optimization at scale.
Strong product intuition and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences.
Excellent communication skills and a track record of influencing across Engineering, Product, and Design leadership, including executive stakeholders.
A bias toward ownership, execution, and continuous improvement, with the judgment to prioritize the highest-leverage work across the organization.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Jetpack Compose and modern Android architecture patterns.
Experience building shared platforms, design systems, or developer infrastructure used across multiple teams.
Deep expertise in application performance, startup optimization, reliability, and observability at scale.
Experience leading large-scale technical migrations or architectural transformations spanning multiple teams or the whole org.
Contributions to open source projects or the Android community, or other external recognition of technical leadership.
Experience building collaboration, productivity, messaging, AI, or enterprise software products.

Responsibilities

Define the multi-year technical strategy behind experiences used by millions of Slack users every day, spanning multiple teams and the broader organization.
Lead the most complex, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from early technical exploration through production rollout and long-term evolution, often spanning several teams or the entire org.
Lead feature prototyping to define the Android user experience for Slack’s biggest opportunities.
Partner with Product and Design leadership to shape experiences that balance user needs, technical constraints, and long-term maintainability at scale.
Identify and drive org-wide opportunities to improve performance, reliability, accessibility, and developer productivity.
Act as a top-level technical authority, influencing engineering decisions across the org through architecture reviews, technical strategy, and mentorship of staff and senior engineers.
Set and evangelize best practices for Android development, testing, observability, and operational excellence across the broader engineering organization.
Drive the evolution of Slack's mobile architecture and infrastructure to support future product investments, including AI-powered experiences.
Mentor and grow other Staff and Senior engineers, and help cultivate technical leadership across the broader Android engineering community within Slack.