Staff Software Engineer, Android - Slack

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Help shape the engineering culture of the team and work closely with managers and engineers to make trade-offs and build ambitious technical and product roadmaps.
• Provide coaching for engineers and drive alignment between cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ship features that delight users and improve their productivity on the Slack for Android app.
• Partner with Product and Design teams to craft efficient, performant, and user-friendly Android experiences.
• Contribute to building long-term, flexible patterns and structures for the evolving product.
• Ensure the Android app meets high standards of performance, design, and user experience.

Requirements

• At least 6+ years of mobile engineering experience, ideally in a team environment.
• 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 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 diagnosing performance bottlenecks.
• A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation, and code structure in a team environment.
• Familiarity with the Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking.
• Excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading.
• A related technical degree.

Nice to Have

• 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 great open source projects or contributing to the Android community.
• Experience with reactive programming (e.g., RXJava).

Qualifications

• Related technical degree.

Benefits & Perks

• Benefits including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more. (Details available on the benefits site.)