Job Description
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:
77% of the fortune 100 use Slack
150+ countries have daily active users in Slack
Slack delivers 300k+ messages per second
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
ABOUT THE TEAM
We're looking for people who are passionate about crafting phenomenal web applications.
As a Frontend Engineer you’ll use your extensive knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to improve the Slack 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. You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, Application Engineering, and QA to spec, conceptualize, build, test and deploy new features for our large (and growing!) user base.
We’re currently hiring different levels of Frontend Engineers for our Slack AI team, writing features which leverage AI to make Slack a better way for users to gain knowledge and direct their attention when using Slack.
What you will be doing
Brainstorming with Product Managers and Designers to conceptualize new features.
Collaborating with Application Engineering to build new features for our large-and-growing user base.
Learning about new web technologies and discussing potential solutions to problems.
Helping our skilled support team triage bugs and tackle production issues.
Mentoring other engineers and deeply reviewing code.
What you should have
4+ years of experience writing client-side JavaScript and React Framework.
Expertise in building complex layouts with CSS and HTML.
Experience building and debugging complex systems in a team environment.
Experience with modern browser technologies.
Strong UX and design sensibilities, and a desire to sweat the small stuff.
Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and empathy.
Self-awareness and a desire to continually improve.
A related technical degree required.
Bonus Points
Experience with Typescript.
Experience with WebRTC.
Experience investigating and improving JavaScript performance.
Experience with WebSockets, Local Storage, or ES6.
Experience in small startup environments.
Experience designing web sites or applications.
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?
Benefits & Perks
Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.
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