Salesforce Engineering Lead

liberis; Mumbai; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberis is building a global Salesforce Engineering practice. You will lead a pod of developers and admins, own the technical direction of a part of the Salesforce org, and grow the people in your team. Expect a hands-on leadership role combining architecture decisions with mentorship.

Roughly 60-70% of time on technical leadership, 20-30% on people management, and the rest on cross-team work. You will drive platform health, automation, and strategic collaboration across sales and operations.

Qualifications

• Proven success in a Salesforce development role with ownership of architectural decisions.
• Deep command of Apex, Lightning Web Components, SOQL/SOSL and declarative configuration (Flow, object modelling, validation rules, security).
• Experience integrating Salesforce with external systems via REST/SOAP APIs and platform events.
• Some experience leading, mentoring, or managing developers or admins.
• Track record of improving sales or operations processes, not just maintenance.
• Comfortable working directly with sales, operations, and other teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of your team’s Salesforce org and its growth.
• Lead technical delivery, architecture decisions and code reviews.
• Manage people: goals, feedback, career development, and hiring.
• Collaborate with sales, operations and other teams to extend Salesforce impact.
• Coordinate integrations with other engineering teams and provide best-practice guidance on Salesforce APIs.
• Contribute to the Salesforce roadmap and ensure scalable changes.

Skills

Salesforce development

Architecture ownership

Apex

Lightning Web Components

SOQL/SOSL

Declarative configuration

Flow

Object modelling

Security & sharing

REST APIs

SOAP APIs

Platform events

People leadership

Process improvement

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Some key info for you about Liberis:

We were founded in 2007

We have provided over $3bn of funding to small businesses so far

We have been named in CNBC & Statista Top 150 UK Fintechs for 2025

We're a global team, with a dynamic presence in 6 key locations around the world

We're a thriving community of over 290 innovative minds

We're a vibrant melting pot, celebrating over 27 nationalities in our team

Our team brings experience from over 740 previous companies, from startups to global giants

We have just been named as one of FinTech's Finest 50 by Welcome to the Jungle

We're proud to be an accredited Real Living Wage employer, ensuring everyone is paid fairly for the great work they do!

Our Product & Engineering Team:

Liberis is building the embedded finance platform that lets partners around the world offer innovative funding products to their small business customers. We're a growth-stage fintech with teams in London, Nottingham, Atlanta, Stockholm, Munich and Mumbai, and we're building a global Product, Data & Engineering team that thrives on autonomy, ownership, and is focused on impact! Our teams solve real-world problems for small businesses, shaping products that unlock opportunity at scale.

Our Salesforce team:

You’ll join Liberis' Salesforce Engineering practice, which owns and evolves the Salesforce platform behind how Liberis acquires, onboards, and supports merchants and partners across 15 markets.

You’ll build and run your own pod of up to four people, drawn from developers and admins. This role sits within the wider Technology function and work closely with product teams and business functions such as commercial and operations to turn business needs into reliable Salesforce solutions.

The role:

The Salesforce Engineering Lead is a people leader role that stays hands-on. You’ll own the technical direction of your team's part of the Salesforce org and the growth of the people in it. This isn't a step away from engineering into pure management. Liberis expects both.

Roughly 60-70% of your time goes to technical and delivery leadership, 20-30% to people management (1:1s, performance, career development, hiring), and the rest to cross-team and strategic work. The exact split depends on where your team is and what it needs at the time.

What you'll be doing:

Technical leadership

Own the technical direction and quality of your team's part of the Salesforce org: object model, security and sharing, automation, and integrations.

Make or guide architecture decisions with clear reasoning about the trade-offs.

Stay close enough to the code to review it credibly, help with the hard problems, and lead incident response when something breaks.

Hold the line on engineering practice: CI/CD, Salesforce DX, testing, code review, and release management.

People management

Set goals, give feedback, and support career development for developers and admins at different levels.

Build a team environment where people can grow and where feedback runs both ways.

Delivery and stakeholder partnership

Work directly with sales, operations, and other customer-facing teams to understand how they work and where Salesforce can do more for them.

Partner with other engineering teams to coordinate integrations and provide best-practice guidance on using Salesforce APIs.

Act as a strategic advisor, not just an order-taker: help teams rethink a process, not just build what they first asked for.

Contribute to the Salesforce roadmap and make sure changes are scalable and lined up with the wider business.

Own platform health: security, data quality, and governance.

Drive adoption of automation, including AI-driven automation, that cuts cost to serve without cutting quality.

Represent your team's technical view in cross-team and leadership discussions.

What we think you'll need:

Essential

• Proven success in a Salesforce development role, including time spent owning architecture decisions rather than just implementing them.
• Deep command of Apex, Lightning Web Components, and SOQL/SOSL, plus confident declarative configuration: Flow, object modelling, validation rules, security and sharing.
• Experience integrating Salesforce with external systems through REST/SOAP APIs and platform events.
• Some experience leading, mentoring, or managing other developers or admins, even informally, and a genuine interest in doing more of it.
• A track record of improving sales or operations processes, not just maintaining what's already there.
• Comfortable working directly with sales, operations, and oth