Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Developer Experience (Slack)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Developer Experience (Slack): Improving reliability and speeding up feedback loops for frontend development by enhancing developer experiences and productivity through tooling, processes, and support. Focus on making the FE toolchain efficient and reliable, and improving engineering standards.

Location: Atlanta, GA or San Francisco, CA

Company

Slack is your Digital HQ – a place where work flows between your people, systems, partners, and customers.

What you will do

• Speed up the frontend development cycle by making Slack’s frontend build faster and more performant
• Brainstorm novel solutions to big, challenging problems to make engineer’s lives simpler and more productive
• Collaborate with your team and others to bring these solutions to life
• Trace, measure, and improve the performance characteristics of internal systems
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Requirements

• 5+ years experience writing JavaScript or TypeScript
• 4+ years experience with modern frontend toolchains and build tools (i.e. Webpack, Rspack)
• 4+ year experience building and debugging complex systems in a team environment
• 3+ year experience with CI/CD tools
• 2+ years experience with tsc and/or tsgo
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
• Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and empathy
• Self-motivation and the ability to take initiative independently, learn quickly, and meet deadlines.

Nice to have

• Experience with yarn workspaces
• Experience with Typescript Project References
• Experience with CSS tooling (less, Sass, PostCSS, Lightning CSS)
• Experience with frontend linters like ESLint, Oxlint, Biome
• Experience investigating and improving JavaScript performance
• Experience with PHP or Hack
• Experience (or interest) in the Rust programming language
• Experience with React, Redux

Culture & Benefits

• Enhancing developers' experiences and productivity through tooling, processes, and support
• Focusing on enhancing developers' experiences and productivity through tooling, processes, and support
• Making the development inner loop faster for hundreds of developers by making the FE toolchain efficient and reliable.