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Software Engineer, Backend - Slack

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Job Overview

Salesforce is seeking a talented Software Engineer, Backend to join the Slack team. This role is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and offers an exciting opportunity to work on a platform that is used by millions of people worldwide. As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for building features, designing and implementing API methods, and improving the performance and reliability of our systems as we rapidly scale our product and organization.

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.

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of professional experience in building web applications.
  • Experience with functional or imperative programming languages such as PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, C, or Java.
  • Ability to contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team.
  • Strong communication skills, capable of explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers.
  • Solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
  • A related technical degree is required.

Benefits & Perks

Salesforce offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

Culture

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 say hello?

Equal Opportunity

Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Benefits
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  • Wellbeing reimbursement
  • Generous parental leave
  • Adoption assistance
  • Fertility benefits

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