Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Android
InformaticaBase Salary
$218k - $401k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define multi-year technical strategy for Slack mobile experiences spanning multiple teams and the broader organization.
- Lead complex, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from technical exploration through production rollout and long-term evolution.
- Prototype features and shape Android user experiences in partnership with Product and Design leadership.
- Drive organization-wide improvements in performance, reliability, accessibility, developer productivity, observability, and operational excellence.
- Act as a top-level technical authority through architecture reviews, technical strategy, mentorship, and influence across teams.
- Drive the evolution of Slack’s mobile architecture and infrastructure, including support for future AI-powered experiences.
- Mentor and grow Staff and Senior engineers and cultivate technical leadership across Slack’s Android engineering community.
Requirements
- 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, including extensive experience building and scaling Android applications in production.
- Architect-level track record leading large, ambiguous, organization-spanning technical initiatives with measurable business impact.
- Deep experience designing systems and architectures that scale across many teams and long-lived codebases.
- Recognized expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development, including setting technical standards.
- Expert understanding of Android architecture, application lifecycle, concurrency, networking, and performance optimization at scale.
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and align executive and senior stakeholders across multiple teams.
- Strong product intuition, excellent communication skills, ownership, execution, and prioritization abilities.
- Preferred: experience with Jetpack Compose and modern Android architecture patterns.
- Preferred: experience building shared platforms, design systems, or developer infrastructure used across multiple teams.
- Preferred: expertise in application performance, startup optimization, reliability, and observability at scale.
- Preferred: experience leading large-scale technical migrations or architectural transformations.
- Preferred: open-source or Android community contributions, external technical recognition, or experience with collaboration, productivity, messaging, AI, or enterprise software products.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The role is based within Salesforce/Slack; no specific remote, hybrid, or in-office arrangement is stated.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com