Asana

Staff Software Engineer, API

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5 months ago
Vancouver, CanadaStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$211k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set the technical strategy and vision for Asana’s API platform and advocate for engineering-driven investments
  • Drive continuous improvement in team delivery and help engineers develop their skills
  • Collaborate across Engineering and serve as the technical counterpart to the API team’s Engineering Manager
  • Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and User Research to understand developer needs and propose solutions
  • Own API design guidelines and help product engineering teams implement best practices through self-service approaches
  • Develop across the stack using Scala, JavaScript, and TypeScript to improve developer experiences
  • Mentor and grow engineers and developer advocates

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of experience working in large codebases
  • At least 2 years leading engineering teams
  • At least 1 year building public-facing API products or Developer Platforms
  • Strong communication, collaboration, delegation, project management, timeline planning, risk mitigation, stakeholder management, and coordination skills
  • Ability to mentor engineers at all skill levels and provide thoughtful, candid feedback
  • Ability to transition between contexts and codebases and rapidly unblock teammates
  • Curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies and willingness to use them to improve productivity, collaboration, or decision-making

Benefits

  • Mental health, wellness, and fitness benefits
  • Career coaching and support
  • Inclusive family-building benefits
  • Long-term savings or retirement plans
  • In-office culinary options
  • Office-centric hybrid schedule based in the Vancouver office, with standard in-office days Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; Wednesday work from home is generally available and Friday depends on the work and team

Tech Stack

Asana

About Asana

1,001-5,000 employees

Asana is the work management platform for human + AI collaboration. We help organizations bring people, processes, and AI together to plan, track, and deliver work with clarity and speed. Powered by the Work Graph®, Asana gives teams the context and control they need to stay aligned, keep work moving, and scale impact. AI handles the busywork while humans stay in the loop to guide decisions and drive the business forward. More than 170,000 organizations — including Accenture, Amazon, Anthropic, Morningstar, and Suzuki — run their most critical work on Asana. For more information, visit www.asana.com.