Senior Software Engineer (Web App Performance)

Join Asana, a leading work management platform, as a Senior Software Engineer on our Performance & Scalability team. In this role, you will be responsible for improving web application performance, ensuring feature scalability for our largest customers, and mentoring other engineers. You will collaborate with infrastructure teams, tackle complex technical challenges, and enhance Asana's infrastructure. This position is based in our Vancouver office with a hybrid schedule.

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