Senior Software Engineer, Admin Area
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Management team in our Vancouver Office. The team plays a vital role in understanding the Asana data graph and ensuring the integrity and compliant use of data across the product. You’ll work on essential features touching the entire customer data lifecycle, such as data exports, object archiving, trashing & recovery, and audit logs. All of these are fundamental for Enterprise customers and involve handling and managing large-scale datasets to ensure smooth and secure operations.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Being part of this team will provide you with the opportunity to dive deep into Asana’s data graph, gaining a deep understanding of how data is managed at scale. While compliance is a key focus, our work goes beyond and empowers customers to efficiently manage their data across large, complex environments. You will implement efficient algorithms for handling vast datasets and work closely with cross-functional teams, including core infrastructure, product, and legal, to deliver scalable, secure solutions.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This role is based in our Vancouver office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What you’ll achieve</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Work in a high-performance, dynamic team with a strong focus on velocity and software quality</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Contribute to building a complex SaaS application that is a market leader in its segment </span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Be exposed to Asana’s core infrastructure, particularly how data is represented, stored and deleted in the storage layer.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Work with asynchronous jobs and efficiently and implement algorithms that efficiently traverse the Asana Work Graph</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Work with legal to implement data ownership rules, requiring simple and effective technical solutions to make this process easy and clear to customers. </span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Drive large, impactful projects, delivering features that will be rolled out and used in large organizations</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Support other teams and stakeholders that work in the team’s space</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>About you</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Experience working in ambiguous and complex technical spaces and creating clarity and alignment with partners and stakeholders</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Comfortable and autonomously diving deep into the weeds of complex technical contexts, to make sense of them, and then share their knowledge in a clear way with people in different roles and with different technical backgrounds</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a strong understanding of software concepts and design patterns that make solutions scalable and robust.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Care deeply about the User Experience and comfortable working with frontend frameworks such as React.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Excited about mentoring and coaching teammates and stakeholders and contributing to leveling the team</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Have experience driving projects of medium to large complexity.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Demonstrated curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What we’ll offer</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $176,000 CAD - $200,000 CAD. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be modified.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Career coaching & support</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Inclusive family building benefits</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetic
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