Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Developer Experience - Slack

## Description

Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Developer Experience - Slack

The Frontend Developer Experience team empowers developers to write, build, test, and deploy code seamlessly across mobile, desktop, and multiple operating systems while solving unique scaling challenges. That means improving reliability, speeding up feedback loops, reducing cognitive load, and actively listening to developer pains to prioritize the work that matters most. We’re shaping a development environment where engineers stay in flow with fast builds, minimal friction, and tooling that feels intuitive rather than intrusive. As part of the DevXP Pillar, we focus on enhancing developers' experiences and productivity through tooling, processes, and support. As part of this team you will be making the development inner loop faster of hundreds of developers by making the FE toolchain efficient and reliable.

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.

What You Will Be Doing

• You’ll speed up our frontend development cycle by making Slack’s frontend build faster and more performant
• You’ll brainstorm novel solutions to big, challenging problems to make engineer’s lives simpler and more productive
• You’ll collaborate with your team and others to bring these solutions to life
• You’ll trace, measure and improve the performance characteristics of our internal systems
• You’ll improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• You’ll learn about new frontend tooling and discuss potential solutions to problems
• You’ll mentor other engineers and deeply review code

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.

### Bonus Points

• 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

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