About this opportunity
Slack lists this Software Engineer, Desktop Client opportunity in san francisco, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Slack is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Desktop team within the Architecture and Systems organization. This team is responsible for the desktop framework that underpins the Slack desktop client across all platforms. The team is heavily involved within the Electron project, ensuring the continued success and sustainability of the Electron ecosystem on behalf of Slack.
We are looking for an engineer who has deep expertise within Google’s Chromium project, who is eager to lead cross‑functional efforts to uphold Slack security, performance, and stability within the web and desktop client. This engineer should love to keep up to date with the evolving capabilities of browser and desktop‑based development, be excited about the opportunity to increase developer efficiency and iterate on desktop security and development best practices alongside the rest of the Desktop and Frontend teams, and look forward to opportunities to collaborate across companies to align interests on a unified Electron vision.
Our success depends on working closely with other teams at Slack and at other companies, so communication and collaboration skills are a must. This is an opportunity to work on a team of skilled and impactful engineers that directly affects how Slack’s desktop client is built.
Responsibilities
Leading efforts across Electron to ensure OS level stability, security, and code maintainability
Leading cross‑functional desktop initiatives at Slack associated with increasing developer productivity, performance, or security alongside desktop and frontend stakeholders
Maintain and improve the core systems that power the Slack desktop client and Electron framework, including Slack and Electron‑based infrastructure and tooling
Contributing to key architectural decisions to adapt our existing frontend and desktop infrastructure to support new product features
Proactively identifying and remedying communication gaps and issues to reach alignments for complex issues across diverse internal and external audiences and influence organizational goals and strategy
Qualifications
Deep Chromium experience
Deep working experience in Node.js and the underlying V8 JavaScript engine
Experience working with performance profiling and debugging tools for web‑based desktop applications
Familiarity with desktop development, along with the ability to understand and explain technical trade‑offs and complexities of web‑based desktop applications
Experience working with large‑scale open‑source projects (and having contributed to some is a big plus)
Experience writing understandable, testable code with an eye toward maintainability and scalability
Eagerness to learn, but similar excitement to teach
Strong written and verbal communication skills, equally comfortable communicating with your immediate team, other frontend engineers, or even backend infrastructure engineers
Understanding that the perfect solution is informed by the people who will be building on your work, rather than being purely dependent on technical merits; empathy is a feature
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
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Worksite address
san francisco, CA, 94199, US
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