Senior Staff Software Engineer, Android

San Francisco, CA, United States

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We're looking for people who are passionate about crafting phenomenal Android applications.

You've been around for a majority of API levels and you know how to delight Android users. You've got an eye for the alluring Android design our users expect and an attention to detail down to the very last density independent pixel. You know your way around the View hierarchy and are eager to partner with Product and Design to craft efficient, performant, and delightful user experiences. You like building for the long term and value patterns and structures that allow for maximum flexibility in a constantly evolving product.

As a Sr. Staff Android Engineer, you will work with a cross-disciplinary team, using your extensive knowledge of building applications across a wide array of Android devices to make the Slack experience on Android be the best it can possibly be. You will author code that establishes forward-looking patterns that multiple teams depend on and can contribute to optimally. You will support Android across all of Slack engineering, ensuring the best app experience. Slack on Android is used by millions of people every week - we need engineers who want to make that experience as enjoyable as possible.

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 thoughtful, humble, hardworking and above all, collaborative.

What You Should Have:

Note: This position can be 100% remote in the U.S.

At least 10+ years of mobile engineering experience, in a team environment directing and guiding the efforts of a functional group through delegation to senior technical leaders

A related technical degree required

Experience developing with Kotlin

Extensive understanding of Android framework components and their respective lifecycles

Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and programming languages

Experience working closely with product teams, designers, and other developers to create a truly delightful mobile experience

Current and detailed knowledge of the capabilities of different Android API levels

Experience developing highly performant Kotlin code and view layouts and the ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks

Recognized lead for a number of features or systems that tackle large, open-ended problems, often involving new or innovative approaches.

Experience driving technical design and culture across their function, contributing to organization-wide technical decision-making and strategy

A track record as a trusted coach and mentor, actively building new leaders. Sponsor and elevate underrepresented talent across engineering teams

A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment

An excellent understanding of the Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking

An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading

A constant desire to improve, learn more and take things higher

Bonus Points

Experience using Slack and a keen interest in making it better

A passion for creating accessible applications

A passion for building and maintaining excellent open source projects or otherwise contributing to the Android community

Experience with reactive programming (e.g. RXJava)

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