Who you are

• Have 5+ years of software development experience with 2+ years mentoring/coaching other engineers on impactful software projects
• Experience working in ambiguous and complex technical spaces and creating clarity and alignment with partners and stakeholders
• Have a track record of designing and implementing solutions to complex business problems. You have skillfully influenced and got buy-in from stakeholders and other teams to adopt/implement these solutions
• Comfortable and autonomously debugging and fixing tricky issues in various parts of the software stack, particularly on the backend
• Have a strong breath of knowledge of software concepts and design patterns that you can comfortably apply to make technical solutions scalable and robust
• Have experience driving projects of medium to large complexity
• You have a continuous improvement mindset and are never satisfied with the status quo, whether it's about the architecture, the code or the team's processes
• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making

What the job involves

• The Product team builds features end-to-end
• From designing our data models to implementing the subtle interaction behaviors that differentiate good software from great software
• We work closely with UI designers and are supported by our infrastructure team
• We aim to delight users with both large new features and smaller, daily product enhancements—thanks to our continuous deployment architecture
• We want to create a superlative user experience, down to the smallest details
• We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Admin Foundations team in our Vancouver Office
• The team plays a vital role in developing tools for Administrators to manage their Asana instance at Scale while establishing frameworks/patterns for Asana engineers to easily create admin controls for the features they develop
• Being part of this team will provide you with the opportunity to get a deep understanding of Asana’s administrative controls and permissions
• This comes with an exposure to various other surfaces of the product that will enable you to work with different teams
• You will also be working across different levels of our technical stack, from frontend tools like React to backend systems like the remote jobs framework
• Work in a high-performance, dynamic team with a strong focus on velocity and software quality
• Contribute to building a complex SaaS application that is a market leader in its segment
• Work closely with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to deliver delightful software and tools for customers to help administer their Asana instance at scale
• Drive technical strategies that cross over other team surfaces and align with such teams and stakeholders to get buy-in and implement such strategies
• Make significant individual contributions by developing across the entire stack and leaving things better than you found them – this includes writing Typescript, Javascript and occasionally Scala
• Drive large, impactful projects, delivering features that will be rolled out and used in large organizations

Benefits

• Benefits - From comprehensive health benefits including mental health programs and coaching to our in-house culinary program and supportive parental leave policies, our benefits are intentionally designed to ensure that you are energized, focused, and thriving
• Growth - We know that growth isn’t always linear, so we’ll support you in achieving your personal and professional goals. You’ll have the opportunity to take on big responsibilities that impact our success as a company and challenge you in new and fulfilling ways
• Development - We believe in providing everyone with coaching and mentorship. You’ll have access to Conscious Leadership training, success guides, free executive coaching, and our manager training and enablement program