Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Android

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About Salesforce

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About Slack

Slack is your Digital HQ — bringing people, apps, customers, and AI agents together in one place. Millions of people use Slack every day to communicate, collaborate, and get work done. As work becomes increasingly distributed and AI-powered, Slack is redefining how teams operate and how work happens at scale.

The Team

The Slack Mobile team builds Slack's mobile experiences, from core messaging to AI and everything in between.
We operate at the intersection of product innovation, mobile platform excellence, and large-scale engineering. The features and systems we build support millions of daily users and require deep investments in performance, reliability, accessibility, and user experience.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Staff Android Engineer (Architect) to help define the future of Slack on mobile. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you'll serve as a top technical authority spanning multiple teams and orgs. You'll set strategy at an organizational scale, shape product and technical direction across Slack's mobile platform, and lead innovation on the biggest opportunities facing Slack's Android application.
You'll partner closely with Product, Design, Backend, Infrastructure, iOS, and fellow mobile engineering leaders to deliver experiences that are intuitive, delightful, and reliable for millions of users worldwide. This role combines deep hands-on technical leadership with organization-wide influence, shaping how multiple teams build and scale mobile software as part of Slack's Architect technical leadership track.

What You'll Do

• Define the multi-year technical strategy behind experiences used by millions of Slack users every day, spanning multiple teams and the broader organization.
• Lead the most complex, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from early technical exploration through production rollout and long-term evolution, often spanning several teams or the entire org.
• Lead feature prototyping to define the Android user experience for Slack’s biggest opportunities.
• Partner with Product and Design leadership to shape experiences that balance user needs, technical constraints, and long-term maintainability at scale.
• Identify and drive org-wide opportunities to improve performance, reliability, accessibility, and developer productivity.
• Act as a top-level technical authority, influencing engineering decisions across the org through architecture reviews, technical strategy, and mentorship of staff and senior engineers.
• Set and evangelize best practices for Android development, testing, observability, and operational excellence across the broader engineering organization.
• Drive the evolution of Slack's mobile architecture and infrastructure to support future product investments, including AI-powered experiences.
• Mentor and grow other Staff and Senior engineers, and help cultivate technical leadership across the broader Android engineering community within Slack.

What We're Looking For

• Proven track record, at an Architect level, of leading large, ambiguous, org-spanning technical initiatives with significant measurable business impact.
• Deep experience designing systems and architectures that scale across many teams and long-lived codebases over many years.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction purely through expertise and collaboration, driving alignment across executive and senior stakeholders and multiple teams.
• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, including extensive experience building and scaling Android applications in production.
• Deep, recognized expertise in Kotlin and modern Android development, with a track record of setting technical standards that others across the industry or company follow.
• Expert understanding of Android architecture, application lifecycle, concurrency, networking, and performance optimization at scale.
• Strong product intuition and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences.
• Excellent communication skills and a track record of influencing across Engineering, Product, and Design leadership, including executive stakeholders.
• A bias toward ownership, execution, and continuous improvement, with the judgment to prioritize the highest-leverage work across the organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Jetpack Compose and modern Android architecture patterns.
• Experience building shared platforms, design systems, or developer infrastructure used across multiple teams.
• Deep expertise in application performance, startup optimization, reliability, and observability at scale.
• Experience leading large-scale technical migrations or architectural transformations spanning multiple teams or the whole org.
• Contributions to open source projects or the Android community, or other external recognition of technical leadership.
• Experience building collaboration, productivity, messaging, AI, or enterprise software products.

Why Join Us?

You'll have the opportunity to shape the technical direction of Slack's mobile platform at an organizational scale, influence experiences used by millions of people, and work alongside some of the strongest mobile engineers in the industry. You'll help define how work gets done on mobile in an increasingly AI-powered world.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions.

The typical base salary range for this position is $218,400 - $365,200 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $263,200 - $401,400 annually.

The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.