Description Role DescriptionSalesforce has immediate opportunities for software developers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users, the company's bottom line, and the industry. You will be working with a group of world-class engineers to build the breakthrough features our customers will love, adopt, and use while keeping our trusted CRM platform stable and scalable. The software engineer role at Salesforce encompasses architecture, design, implementation, and testing to ensure we build products right and release them with high quality.Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team (depending on the seniority level) We pride ourselves on writing high-quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier. We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while encouraging everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves. We believe that autonomous teams with the freedom to make decisions will empower the individuals, the product, the company, and the customers they serve to thrive.Your ImpactABOUT THE TEAMWe are looking for Backend Engineers to build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems as we rapidly scale our product and organization. We build our app using reliable tools that our team knows and trusts, including PHP/Hack, Java, MySQL, and Linux. Expertise in these areas is a huge plus, but having familiarity with other common web languages (such as Python or Ruby) and other relational databases are fine substitutes. We’re a collaborative team who genuinely enjoys working together with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, frontend, iOS, Android, automation, and quality engineers to make Slack a better product. We are looking for engineers that understand that simplicity and reliability are aspects of a system to be carefully calculated with every decision made.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?WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING: You'll brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers on your team to conceptualize and build new features for our large (and growing!) user base.You’ll produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant impact on the business.You’ll actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.You'll assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues.You'll mentor other engineers and deeply review code.You’ll improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE: You’ve been building web applications professionally for 8 to 13 years.You have experience with functional or imperative programming languages — e.g., PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, C, or Java.You can contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team.You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability.You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.You possess solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.A related technical degree requiredBENEFITS & PERKSComprehensive benefits package including well-being reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more!World-class enablement and on-demand training with Trailhead.comExposure to executive thought leaders and regular 1:1 coaching with leadershipVolunteer opportunities and participation in our 1:1:1 model for giving back to the communityFor more details, visit https://www.salesforcebenefits.com/