Description
Slack is looking for a seasoned engineering leader to join the Backend and Frontend Client Infrastructure teams within the Architecture and Systems organisation.
As a Sr Engineering Manager, you will lead two teams of skilled and high-performing engineers focused on contributing to high-impact Slack business objectives while advocating for and maintaining a clear roadmap and vision for the team.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the team to set the long-term vision and execution strategy
- Define, monitor, and report against quarterly measures for team deliverables
- Represent the team in planning, product, and leadership meetings within the organisation and across Slack engineering
- Regularly connect with cross-functional partners across Slack engineering to drive alignment and execute against business goals
- Understand opportunities and trade-offs to including members of the team within product engineering-owned initiatives
- Represent and evangelise the opportunities to improve productivity, performance, and code health through a consistently evolving and modern frontend infrastructure
- Mentor, teach, and coach the team while supporting and advocating for the career development and interests of the individuals on the team
- Be a key stakeholder and strategic partner in business-critical project areas such as security and product
- Champion AI-assisted development practices across the team, and identify opportunities to apply them to both engineering and operational workflows
Requirements:
- Experience coaching and mentoring a team of high-performing and skilled engineers
- Experience designing, scaling, and operating backend services and distributed systems that power high-traffic client applications
- Deep knowledge of API design principles that support long-lived client contracts
- Deep knowledge of browsers and frontend technologies
- High resilience towards uncertainty, ambiguity, and operating with high stakes, occasionally with conflicting priorities and stakeholders
- The ability to understand and explain the technical trade-offs and complexities regarding concepts like service workers, boot frameworks, and web sockets
- The ability to weigh several - often conflicting - constraints and make rapid technical decisions in a fast-moving environment
Benefits:
- Time off programs
- Medical, dental, vision
- Mental health support
- Paid parental leave
- Life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Employee stock purchasing program
The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually.