Staff Prototyping Engineer, Android
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- California - San Francisco Metro - Remote
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Mobile
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building complex, high-craft Android applications at scale.
Nice to have
- Experience with Jetpack Compose and modern Android architecture patterns. Experience with Combine Concurrency (async/await, actors), and dependency injection frameworks (e.g. Needle, Resolver).
- Experience leading large-scale new products, features, or product transformations spanning multiple teams or the whole org.
- Experience using research, usability testing, data, and experimentation to ground decisions and uncover opportunities.
- 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.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong product intuition and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences.
Full description
To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.
Job Category
Software Engineering
Job Details
About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.
Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
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 achieve at scale. In this AI era, Slack’s mission remains making people’s work lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.
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 Staff Engineer to help shape the future of Slack’s mobile product. As a Prototyping Engineer, you’ll embed as a leader on greenfield, zero-to-one initiatives. You’ll influence product and design direction through engineering work that builds and ships the first versions of newly-imagined, fully working product features. You’ll work closely with Product, Design, Backend, and fellow mobile engineers to help innovate some of the biggest new product opportunities for Slack, with experiences that are intuitive, performant, and reliable for millions of users worldwide.
What You'll Do
This is a role for a self-directed, creative engineer who can operate with high velocity and strong independent judgment, combining hands-on technical leadership with broad organizational influence. We are looking for someone who can start from an ambiguous problem, no defined path, and competing priorities, and work through that to frame the problem, align stakeholders on what matters most, and move quickly from idea to working prototype to a shipped experience. You will: