Staff Salesforce Engineer (f/m/x)

Staff Salesforce Engineer

As a Staff Full Stack Salesforce Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping and launching a brand-new engineering team focused on our Salesforce platform. You’ll combine hands-on technical leadership with strategic direction, setting the foundation for long-term success. Specifically, you will:

• Mentor and onboard new team members, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Coordinate engineering efforts across teams, ensuring alignment around Salesforce architecture and long-term goals.
• Establish robust architectural foundations, balancing declarative and programmatic tools.
• Architect and implement scalable, maintainable Salesforce solutions, championing testing, simplicity, and reducing tech debt.
• Drive execution of cross-functional initiatives, delivering high-quality results aligned with business needs.
• Shape and launch the new Salesforce engineering team, defining its vision, scope, and talent needs.
• Lead and influence Salesforce solution design, simplifying complex decisions and mentoring best practices.
• Translate product and business goals into actionable Salesforce strategies, identifying new technical and business opportunities.

You are a highly experienced and hands-on Salesforce engineer, fluent in both declarative and programmatic development. You’re equally comfortable solving technical and organizational challenges, bringing a strategic mindset and a builder’s mentality to help form and lead a brand-new Salesforce-focused team.

You bring:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with deep expertise in Salesforce platform development, including declarative tools and programmatic tools (Apex, LWC, Flows)
• A strong understanding of when to use declarative versus programmatic solutions, and the ability to guide others in making these decisions for maintainability and scalability.
• Solid expertise in Salesforce data modeling, API integrations (REST), and asynchronous communication patterns using tools like Platform Events, as well as event-driven architecture to integrate Salesforce with adjacent systems.
• Experience with CI/CD practices and tooling for Salesforce (e.g., Gearset, Copado) to ensure high-quality, reliable deployments and streamline development workflows.
• Broad software engineering foundations, with familiarity in adjacent systems (e.g., backend services, databases, microservices).
• A passion for mentorship, fostering team growth, and sharing knowledge.
• Curiosity and a drive for continuous learning, including exploring AI and emerging technologies, to stay ahead in the field.
• A collaborative and inclusive communication style, with the ability to translate complex technical challenges for all audiences.
• A high sense of ownership and a bias for action in tackling challenges.
• Familiarity with agile delivery methods (Scrum, Kanban) and collaboration tools like JIRA and Confluence.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex ideas clearly and build trusted relationships across engineering, product, and leadership teams.