Job Summary:
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. The role involves driving end-to-end engineering ownership across a portfolio of complex initiatives, shaping architecture, mentoring teams, and influencing engineering standards while partnering closely with various stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
• Technical Leadership & Architecture
• Lead end-to-end technical design and delivery of complex Salesforce solutions
• Translate architectural vision into scalable, maintainable implementations
• Drive design decisions balancing performance, governor limits, security, and extensibility
• Define and evolve enterprise engineering patterns (Apex, LWC, integration frameworks)
• Engineering Excellence & Governance
• Establish and enforce coding standards, review practices, and quality benchmarks
• Provide hands-on code reviews and actively guide developers across teams
• Drive test automation, CI/CD maturity, and release discipline
• Proactively manage technical debt, dependencies, and system health
• Platform Strategy & Innovation
• Lead adoption of Agentforce, Data Cloud, and AI-assisted development tools
• Evaluate new technologies via POCs, build vs. buy decisions, and technical benchmarking
• Introduce agentic development workflows to improve engineering velocity
• Data & Performance Engineering
• Design and govern scalable data models for large data volumes (LDV)
• Optimize SOQL, indexing strategies, and transaction performance
• Ensure high standards of data integrity, security, and compliance
• Delivery Ownership & Execution
• Own technical scoping, estimation, and breakdown of complex initiatives
• Identify risks, dependencies, and trade-offs early in the lifecycle
• Drive execution across multiple concurrent projects in a global delivery model
• Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Leadership
• Partner with Product, Architecture, and Business teams to shape solutions
• Translate business requirements into clear technical strategies and trade-offs
• Influence decisions across teams and drive alignment on engineering direction
• Mentorship & Talent Development
• Mentor and grow engineers across skill levels
• Act as a technical anchor and multiplier for the team
• Contribute to hiring and raising the engineering bar
Qualifications:
Required:
• A related technical degree required
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• Strong expertise in Salesforce platform: Apex, LWC, Lightning, Flows, Visualforce
• Solid experience with Java and object-oriented design principles
• Deep understanding of Sales Cloud and end-to-end CRM lifecycle
• Experience with system integrations (REST/SOAP APIs, event-driven patterns)
• Proficiency with modern development practices (Git, CI/CD, Agile)
• Experience with Salesforce DX, scratch orgs, and release management processes
Preferred:
• Experience with Agentforce, Data Cloud, and AI-driven application development
• Familiarity with agentic development environments (e.g., Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code)
• Strong background in Large Data Volume (LDV) architecture and performance tuning
• Experience with test automation frameworks and quality engineering practices
• Multiple Salesforce certifications (PD I/II, Application/System Architect)
• Experience in enterprise-scale SaaS environments
Company:
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.