# Staff Engineer

**Company**: Salesforce
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $197,300 - $313,700 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're looking for a Staff Engineer to help shape the future of Slack's mobile product. As a Prototyping Engineer, you'll embed as a leader on greenfield, zero-to-one initiatives. You'll influence product and design direction through engineering work that builds and ships the first versions of newly-imagined, fully working product features.

Responsibilities:

- Shape the future of Slack on mobile by leading the engineering development of experiences used by millions of users every day

- Lead the most complex, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from early technical exploration through production rollout and long-term evolution

- Lead feature prototyping to define the mobile user experience for Slack's biggest opportunities

- Partner closely with Product and Design to shape experiences that balance user needs, technical constraints, and long-term maintainability

- Influence engineering decisions beyond your immediate team through technical leadership, product reviews, and mentorship

- Set and evangelize best practices for mobile feature development and operational excellence across the broader engineering organization

- Mentor senior engineers and contribute to the growth of the broader mobile engineering community within Slack

Requirements:

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building complex, high-craft Android applications at scale

- Proven track record of moving outside of organizational boundaries to start new initiatives, prototype the path to production, and reorient the organization to support the new initiative

- Experience working in fast-paced environments

- Proven track record of leading large, ambiguous, org-spanning technical initiatives with significant business impact

- Deep expertise in Kotlin framework and modern Android development

- Strong understanding of Android architecture, application lifecycle, concurrency, networking, and performance optimization

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with Jetpack Compose and modern Android architecture patterns

- Experience with Kotlin coroutines, and dependency injection frameworks

- Experience leading large-scale new products, features, or product transformations spanning multiple teams or the whole org

- Experience using research, usability testing, data, and experimentation to ground decisions and uncover opportunities

- Contributions to open source projects or the Android community

- Experience building collaboration, productivity, messaging, AI, or enterprise software products

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 $197,300 - $313,700 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $237,700 - $344,700 annually.

## Skills

### Required
- Kotlin
- Android development
- Java

### Nice to have
- Jetpack Compose
- Kotlin coroutines
- dependency injection frameworks

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