Salesforce, Inc..
Lead/Staff Backend Software Engineer - Slack (Product)
Salesforce, Inc.., Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30383
Overview
About the Team: The Slackforce team is at the forefront of a strategic initiative to transform enterprise collaboration by seamlessly integrating Slack and Salesforce. Our core mission is to redefine how businesses operate, making two of the world’s most widely used platforms feel like one unified, intuitive system. Following Salesforce's acquisition of Slack in December 2020, our work is pivotal in establishing Slack as the primary frontend for the Salesforce platform. With Slack's product and chat-based interface, it is also becoming Salesforce’s primary interface for their Agentic AI experience. As the central pillar driving this integration, we build the connective tissue that brings Salesforce data and workflows directly into Slack, while embedding Slack conversations directly within the Salesforce UI. Our focus is on delivering deeply user-centric product experiences. We are a team of
product engineers who deeply care about the user experience . We are seeking
product-driven backend engineers
with strong intuition and experience who build systems and design APIs with the
end user in mind . Our ideal candidates are collaborative, partnering closely with product managers, designers, and frontend/mobile engineers to
conceptualize and build new features . You will be instrumental in designing and owning systems and APIs that directly shape Slack’s product experience, ensuring they are
scalable, performant, and precisely tailored to real user needs , while making smart trade-offs between speed, cost, and user experience. We value engineers who understand that simplicity and reliability are carefully calculated aspects of system design. We build our app using reliable tools that our team knows and trusts, including PHP/Hack, Java, MySQL, and Linux. Expertise in these areas is a huge plus, but having familiarity with other common web languages (such as Python or Ruby) and other relational databases are fine substitutes. What you will be doing: Responsibilities
Youll brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers on your team to conceptualize and build new features for our large (and growing!) user base. Youll produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant impact on the business. Youll actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems. Youll assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues. Youll mentor other engineers and deeply review code. Youll improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes. What you should have: Qualifications
A related technical degree required You’ve been building web applications professionally for 7+ years. You have experience with functional or imperative programming languages — e.g., PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, Go, or C. You can contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team. You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability. You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you. You possess solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval. You embrace the hybrid working model; collaborating in office at least 10 days per quarter. 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. It removes the limits of physical walls, giving people the flexibility to do their best work where, when and how they prefer with features like huddles and clips. And it empowers everyone to automate common tasks with apps and workflows. In this digital-first era, Slack’s mission is to make people’s work lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. A taste of our scale and reach: Slack delivers 300k+ messages per second 77% of the fortune 100 use Slack 150+ countries have daily active users in Slack To date, 1.79 trillion messages have been sent on Slack 2.65 billion actions are taken in Slack each day Slack has 200k+ paid customers Users are spending a combined 243 million minutes per week in Huddles 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?
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About the Team: The Slackforce team is at the forefront of a strategic initiative to transform enterprise collaboration by seamlessly integrating Slack and Salesforce. Our core mission is to redefine how businesses operate, making two of the world’s most widely used platforms feel like one unified, intuitive system. Following Salesforce's acquisition of Slack in December 2020, our work is pivotal in establishing Slack as the primary frontend for the Salesforce platform. With Slack's product and chat-based interface, it is also becoming Salesforce’s primary interface for their Agentic AI experience. As the central pillar driving this integration, we build the connective tissue that brings Salesforce data and workflows directly into Slack, while embedding Slack conversations directly within the Salesforce UI. Our focus is on delivering deeply user-centric product experiences. We are a team of
product engineers who deeply care about the user experience . We are seeking
product-driven backend engineers
with strong intuition and experience who build systems and design APIs with the
end user in mind . Our ideal candidates are collaborative, partnering closely with product managers, designers, and frontend/mobile engineers to
conceptualize and build new features . You will be instrumental in designing and owning systems and APIs that directly shape Slack’s product experience, ensuring they are
scalable, performant, and precisely tailored to real user needs , while making smart trade-offs between speed, cost, and user experience. We value engineers who understand that simplicity and reliability are carefully calculated aspects of system design. We build our app using reliable tools that our team knows and trusts, including PHP/Hack, Java, MySQL, and Linux. Expertise in these areas is a huge plus, but having familiarity with other common web languages (such as Python or Ruby) and other relational databases are fine substitutes. What you will be doing: Responsibilities
Youll brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers on your team to conceptualize and build new features for our large (and growing!) user base. Youll produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant impact on the business. Youll actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems. Youll assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues. Youll mentor other engineers and deeply review code. Youll improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes. What you should have: Qualifications
A related technical degree required You’ve been building web applications professionally for 7+ years. You have experience with functional or imperative programming languages — e.g., PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, Go, or C. You can contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team. You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability. You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you. You possess solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval. You embrace the hybrid working model; collaborating in office at least 10 days per quarter. 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. It removes the limits of physical walls, giving people the flexibility to do their best work where, when and how they prefer with features like huddles and clips. And it empowers everyone to automate common tasks with apps and workflows. In this digital-first era, Slack’s mission is to make people’s work lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. A taste of our scale and reach: Slack delivers 300k+ messages per second 77% of the fortune 100 use Slack 150+ countries have daily active users in Slack To date, 1.79 trillion messages have been sent on Slack 2.65 billion actions are taken in Slack each day Slack has 200k+ paid customers Users are spending a combined 243 million minutes per week in Huddles 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?
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