Senior Software Engineer, Web App Performance

We are dedicated to ensuring Asana's web application remains fast, efficient, and scalable for all customers, regardless of size. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Performance & Scalability team in Vancouver, you will play a critical role in both improving web application performance and ensuring feature scalability for our largest customers. You will tackle complex technical challenges, lead key frontend infrastructure initiatives, and mentor other engineers across our shared tech stack. By collaborating with infrastructure teams and utilizing cutting-edge web technologies, you will enhance Asana's infrastructure, optimize customer experiences, and elevate our technical excellence.

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.

What you’ll achieve

• Lead, design, and execute technical initiatives to significantly improve Asana's web application performance.
• Investigate and resolve high-impact scalability issues within Asana’s product and frameworks.
• Work across the entire shared tech stack, including frontend infrastructure, data loading, and asynchronous executions.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure teams to enhance visibility into scalability and performance problems.
• Empower other engineers to identify and address root causes of performance and scalability issues.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on frontend infrastructure, performance optimization, and feature scaling, providing mentorship and guidance.
• Drive technical projects, navigating complex code and systems and implementing necessary changes.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, translating technical investments to business impact.

About you

• 6+ years of experience in full-time professional software development, working with large codebases.
• 3+ years of experience in modern frontend web technologies, with a focus on frontend infrastructure (data fetching, routing, build systems).
• Experience leading challenging technical projects and driving changes in complex systems.
• Excellent communication skills for collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
• Passion for web performance optimization and solving scalability challenges.
• Ability to approach ambiguous problems with curiosity and a structured methodology.
• Demonstrated sound judgment in balancing speed of development with code quality and maintainability.
• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.
• Experience or willingness to mentor other engineers on technical issues.

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.

What we’ll offer

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.

For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $176,000 - $200,000 CAD. The…