Associate Software Engineer, Backend (New Grad)

Slack is looking for an Associate Software Engineer 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 have backend engineers in almost every team across Slack, and in that role, you’ll be making some of the most significant decisions for the company!

We build our app using reliable tools that our team knows and trusts, including PHP/Hack, 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 partner with 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 at least one year.
• 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 strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
• You have recently completed or are about to complete bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.

Slack is registered as an employer in many, but not all, states. If you are not located in or able to work from a state where Slack is registered, you will not be eligible for employment. Visa sponsorship may not be available in certain remote locations.

Visa sponsorship is not available for candidates living outside the country of this position.