Job brief: Senior Backend Software Engineer

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Asana's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-06.
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• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: Not published
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Reykjavík
• Posted: 2026-07-22 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• 5+ years of BE experience working in large, well-maintained codebases writing and shipping production code
• If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.
• Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation.

Conditions

• This role is based in our Reykjavik office with an office-centric hybrid schedule.
• The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
• If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.
• In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences

Main duties

• Design, build, and iterate on frameworks that influence all aspects of the Asana product.
• Partner with other frameworks and product engineering teams to identify opportunities to enable teams to develop faster at Asana, and help the company achiev…
• Analyze complex systems to uncover issues, root causes and areas of improvement
• Develop new APIs that balance usability with the capability to support Asana’s feature-rich web application
• Write clean, beautiful code, striving to leave it in a better state than you found it

Lines copied from the posting, not rewritten. "Preferred" or "nice to have" items are not listed as must-haves.

How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs across the U.S.: $187k a year (1,154 listings, 68 employers). This listing does not publish pay to compare.
• Across Asana's 48 open listings, 27% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Asana hires

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