Software Engineer, Electron & Browser Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Lead cross functional initiatives across Electron and at Slack.
• Contribute to key architectural decisions to adapt existing frontend and desktop infrastructure.
• Maintain and improve the core systems that power the Slack desktop client and Electron framework.
• Build a safe space for learning and serve as a skilled and trusted mentor to engineers.
• Collaborate with teammates across engineering to identify and solve strategically important initiatives.

• 10+ years of experience writing client-side code (React + Typescript) for modern web applications at scale.
• Deep Chromium experience, or experience contributing to large scale open source projects.
• Experience working in a large-scale, shared codebase with hundreds of contributors.
• Experience writing understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and scalability.
• Expertise in building complex systems and tooling.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to tie technical infrastructure to company goals.
• Experience working with performance profiling and debugging tools for web based desktop applications.
• Familiarity with desktop development.
• Commitment to proactively offering regular, constructive feedback and gracefully receiving it.