Software Engineer II

Backend Software Engineer

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? Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Slack is your Digital HQ – a place where work flows between your people, systems, partners, and customers. From Fortune 100 companies to corner markets, millions of people around the world use Slack to connect their teams, unify their systems, and drive their business forward.

Slack breaks down communication silos inside and beyond your organization by bringing teams and tools together around common goals, projects and processes in channels and in Slack Connect. It removes the limits of physical walls, giving people the flexibility to do their best work where, when and how they prefer with features like huddles and clips. And it empowers everyone to automate common tasks with apps and workflows. In this digital-first era, Slack's mission is to make people's work lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.

A taste of our scale and reach: Slack delivers 300k+ messages per second 77% of the fortune 100 use Slack 150+ countries have daily active users in Slack To date, 1.79 trillion messages have been sent on Slack 2.65 billion actions are taken in Slack each day Slack has 200k+ paid customers Users are spending a combined 243 million minutes per week in Huddles

The Canvas Editor team is hiring Backend Software Engineer! The Editor team is responsible for developing and maintaining the core editing experience in Slack Canvas, including real-time and multi-player editing, integrating with other Slack features such as user mentions, lists and workflows and supporting objects within the editor (code blocks, layouts, embeds, etc.). Our backend projects support creating and updating these objects, ensuring we consider compliance and security requirements. We also focus on improving and maintaining performance and reliability of canvas APIs to offer the best experience for our users.

You'll brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers on your team to improve Canvas 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.

You've been building web applications professionally for 4+ 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 required

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. 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.