Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (Web Performance) - Slack Join to apply for the Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (Web Performance) - Slack role at Slack 6 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants Join to apply for the Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Frontend (Web Performance) - Slack role at Slack To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. 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. About The Team We're looking for a leader to own and drive technical strategy for web performance across Slack. The ideal candidate has passion and expertise in crafting high-performance web applications. As Web Performance TL, you'll use TypeScript, React, Redux, HTML, and CSS to improve Slack's web client, a complex in-browser application relied upon by millions of users every day. You will work with real-time data streams, engineer for performance across browsers, and delight people by making the best software we can imagine. Slack's scale and complexity requires digging deep into UI and state management architecture, making optimizations beyond the concerns of most web applications. You will conceptualize, design, build and deliver new architecture projects to continually improve Slack's end-user experience. What you will be doing: You’ll lead full-time project work for a direct team of FE web engineers You’ll oversee technical strategy, guidelines, and cross-team efforts for web performance across all of Slack's web engineering teams You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Executive leadership across Slack to propose and prioritize the web performance technical roadmap You’ll propose, prototype, and evaluate ideas for improving Slack’s web performance frameworks, bottlenecks, and observability You’ll monitor, learn about, and evaluate new web technologies and potential long-term investments You’ll author code that sets the standard for quality and velocity for your team, and establishes patterns for other teams to follow You’ll help triage bugs and troubleshoot production issues You’ll mentor other engineers and deeply review code What you should have: 10+ years of experience writing client-side JavaScript, TypeScript, and/or React Framework Expertise investigating and improving web application performance Experience building and debugging complex systems in a team environment, and a desire to sweat the small stuff Experience with modern browser technologies Experience designing and running experiments to evaluate performance efforts Experience as a Tech Lead in driving team technical strategy and overseeing team technical work Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and empathy Self-awareness and a desire to continually improve Bonus Points Experience with WebRTC Experience developing an application with long-lived sessions, including updating state with a real-time event stream 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. 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