Staff Prototyping Engineer, Android
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Staff Android prototyping engineer shaping Slack’s mobile collaboration and AI experiences. Leading zero-to-one product initiatives from prototype through production for millions of users.
Responsibilities:
- Shape the future of Slack on mobile by leading engineering development of experiences used by millions of users daily
- Lead complex, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives from technical exploration through production rollout and long-term evolution
- Lead feature prototyping to define mobile user experiences for Slack’s biggest opportunities
- Partner with Product and Design to balance user needs, technical constraints, and maintainability
- Influence engineering decisions beyond the immediate team through technical leadership, product reviews, and mentorship
- Set and evangelize best practices for mobile feature development and operational excellence
- Mentor senior engineers and contribute to the broader mobile engineering community
- Build and ship first versions of newly imagined, fully working product features
- Collaborate with Backend and fellow mobile engineers on innovative product opportunities
Requirements:
- A related technical degree required
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Significant experience building complex, high-craft Android applications at scale
- Proven track record of moving outside organizational boundaries to start new initiatives, prototype the path to production, and reorient the organization
- Experience in fast-paced environments such as a start-up, incubator, or zero-to-one team
- Proven track record leading large, ambiguous, org-spanning technical initiatives with significant business impact
- Deep expertise in Kotlin framework and modern Android development
- Strong understanding of Android architecture, application lifecycle, concurrency, networking, and performance optimization
- Demonstrated ability to influence product and technical direction across executive stakeholders, Engineering/Product/Design leadership, and multiple teams
- Experience with Jetpack Compose and modern Android architecture patterns preferred
- Experience with Combine Concurrency (async/await, actors) and dependency injection frameworks such as Needle or Resolver preferred
- Experience leading large-scale new products, features, or product transformations preferred
- Experience using research, usability testing, data, and experimentation preferred
- Contributions to open source projects or the Android community, or other external recognition of technical leadership preferred
- Experience building collaboration, productivity, messaging, AI, or enterprise software products preferred
- Excellent communication skills preferred
- Strong product intuition and passion for exceptional user experiences preferred
Benefits:
- Time off programs
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Mental health support
- Paid parental leave
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Employee stock purchasing program
- Incentive compensation may be available
- Equity may be available
- Reasonable accommodations during the application or recruiting process
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