We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer (Area Tech Lead) to take on a key technical leadership role for a group of teams focused on improving developer velocity across Asana product engineering. These teams’ products span across the stack: from Asana’s core backend and web frameworks, core performance, to reusable UI components. Some of the teams’ current work include allowing shared business logic between client and server, driving company-wide Accessibility effort, building a roadmap to scale our monolithic codebase, and shifting to leverage industry-wide technologies like GraphQL.

What you’ll achieve

• Provide technical leadership for 6+ engineering teams, all focused towards improving velocity for Asana product engineers
• Build and align on the vision and roadmap for Asana’s developer frameworks for years to come
• Act as a technical partner to an Engineering Director and collaborate on – strategic engineering planning, roadmap sequencing, and prioritizing technical investments
• Partner with Product Management, Design, and Engineering leadership to define area level roadmaps and strategy
• Collaborate with front-line Engineering Managers on creating growth opportunities for their reports, solutions to address technical skill gaps, and providing technical feedback on their reports
• Act as a resource for team-level tech leads on topics like longer-term technical planning, design & architecture, and prioritizing tech debt

About you

• 7+ years of experience working as a technical contributor in large-scale products
• 3+ years of experience working on developer productivity projects or initiatives.
• 2+ years of experience as a technical leader for multiple engineering teams.
• Experience at owning and delegating technical design decisions with broad impact across the organization. Skilled at working cross-team with technical and product stakeholders to make tradeoffs, align on long-term plans, and drive execution of cross-team initiatives.
• Excited to work in a unique problem space that involves complex technical decisions with cross-cutting impact
• Passionate about coaching and mentoring engineers of all experience levels
• Deep care for fostering collaboration and psychological safety among team members
• Excited to be a part of an inclusive culture where everyone brings the aspects of themselves to the workplace that they need to thrive
• Ability to debug off-track teams or projects when necessary, and partnering with teams to get back on track