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• Overview

  Slack is hiring a Quality Engineer in Portland, OR.

• Role description

  This is a junior Quality Engineer position for the person who automated their own job once and immediately wanted to do it again. Come own your work at Slack: $70,000 - $104,000, a supportive team, and 1 years of MySQL put to good use.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Reverse-engineer the proudly-nerdy Java format Slack inherited and never documented
  • Guard the Angular codebase quality through reviews that teach as much as they catch
  • Walk technology stakeholders through Java tradeoffs in language Slack execs grasp
  • Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Initiative
  • Tune Initiative queries until the OR database stops timing out under load
  • Prototype rough MySQL ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in Slack's stack
  • Carry the Webpack platform work that makes Slack's next OR expansion boring
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture

  What You'll Bring

  • A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame
  • Comfortable owning projects from concept through delivery
  • The integrity to flag your own mistakes first
  • The instinct to ask "what would change your mind?" before debating
  • Sound instincts for reading a room you've never been in before

  Slack brings together team-oriented people in Portland, OR who care deeply about the craft behind technology. We onboard you to the technology mission first and the MySQL tooling second, in that order.

  Our offer wraps $70,000 - $104,000 around mentorship, real benefits, and the kind of Portland, OR flexibility most technology roles only promise.

  The freshness epoch just refreshed, marking this Quality Engineer role live again.

  We hire for hunger as much as resumes, so if that's you, the Quality Engineer role is open.

• Required skills

  • MySQL
  • Jenkins
  • JavaScript
  • Ruby
  • Cypress
  • Angular
  • Webpack
  • Java
  • Ruby on Rails
  • MongoDB
  • Team Leadership
  • Initiative
  • Flexibility

• Benefits & perks

  • Mental health support services
  • Fully remote position
  • Acupuncture coverage
  • Paid maternity leave
  • Free coffee and espresso bar
  • Childcare Assistance
  • Housing Allowance
  • Dental insurance
  • Inclusive benefits for LGBTQ+ employees
  • Telemedicine and virtual care access
  • COBRA continuation support
  • Restricted stock units (RSUs)
  • New hire onboarding stipend
  • Personal Shopping

• Apply before 2026-08-21

  Submit your application for this Freelance technology position.