Engineering Manager, Salesforce

Jobgether; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work within the United States

Portland, Oregon location option

Hands-on leadership with strategic影响

Cross-functional collaboration with Cx

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a seasoned Salesforce engineering leader in the United States to guide a team of engineers and admins. You will drive performance management, mentoring, recruitment, onboarding, and career development while maintaining a hands-on contribution of about 25% of each cycle.

Collaborate with platform operations and architecture teams to prioritize work, ensure predictable delivery, and promote engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 4+ years managing Salesforce engineering teams (developers/administrators).
• Deep Salesforce expertise: Apex, SOQL, Lightning Web Components, Flow, security/sharing models, governor limits, data architecture.
• Strong Salesforce DevOps experience: SFDX, Git, CI/CD, sandbox management, automated testing.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into practical technical solutions and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, coaching, communication, organization, and prioritization skills.
• Balance hands-on engineering with people management and team development.
• Experience in hospitality/travel/timeshare/reservation industries is a plus.
• Familiarity with Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, or Marketing Cloud is an advantage.
• Experience using Linear or similar project management tools is desirable.
• Knowledge of AI-assisted development tools and introducing them into workflows is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Salesforce engineers and admins through performance management, career development, mentoring, recruitment, and onboarding.
• Collaborate with platform operations and Salesforce architecture teams to prioritize initiatives, manage team capacity, and ensure predictable delivery.
• Maintain an active technical contribution, dedicating approximately 25% of a typical engineering cycle to hands-on development.
• Partner with business stakeholders across Customer Care, Operations, Finance, Product, and leadership to understand requirements and deliver scalable Salesforce solutions.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices, including code reviews, automated testing, source-driven development, and technical documentation.
• Improve platform stability, performance, and maintainability while identifying and reducing technical debt.
• Act as an escalation point for technical incidents, facilitate blameless postmortems, and drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure that team priorities, workloads, deliverables, and progress are clearly documented, tracked, and communicated.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Prioritization

Performance management

Recruitment/onboarding

Tools

Salesforce DX

Git

CI/CD

Sandbox management

Automated testing

Apex

SOQL

Lightning Web Components

Flow

Job description

Accountabilities

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Salesforce engineers and administrators through performance management, career development, mentoring, recruitment, and onboarding.

- Collaborate with platform operations and Salesforce architecture teams to prioritize initiatives, manage team capacity, and ensure predictable delivery.

- Maintain an active technical contribution, dedicating approximately 25% of a typical engineering cycle to hands‑on development.

- Partner with business stakeholders across Customer Care, Operations, Finance, Product, and leadership to understand requirements and deliver scalable Salesforce solutions.

- Establish and promote engineering best practices, including code reviews, automated testing, source-driven development, and technical documentation.

- Improve platform stability, performance, and maintainability while identifying and reducing technical debt.

- Act as an escalation point for technical incidents, facilitate blameless postmortems, and drive continuous improvement.

- Ensure that team priorities, workloads, deliverables, and progress are clearly documented, tracked, and communicated.

Requirements:

- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial hands‑on development experience.

- 4+ years of experience managing Salesforce engineering teams, including developers and/or administrators.

- Deep technical expertise in Salesforce technologies, including Apex, SOQL, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flow, security and sharing models, governor limits, and Salesforce data architecture.

- Strong experience with Salesforce DevOps practices and tools, including Salesforce DX (SFDX), Git, source-driven development, CI/CD pipelines, sandbox management, and automated testing.

- Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into practical technical solutions and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Strong leadership, mentoring, coaching, communication, organizational, and prioritization skills.

- Demonstrated ability to balance hands‑on engineering responsibilities with people management and team development.

- Experience in hospitality, travel, timeshare, vacation ownership, or reservation-based industries is a plus.

- Familiarity with Salesforce Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, or Marketing Cloud is an advantage.

- Experience using Linear or similar project management tools is desirable.

- Knowledge of AI‑assisted development tools and experience introducing them into engineering workflows is a plus.

Benefits:

- Opportunity to lead a critical technology function and influence the development of a business‑critical Salesforce platform.

- Remote work flexibility within the United States, with an additional location option in Portland, Oregon.

- A hands‑on leadership position combining technical challenges with team development and strategic decision‑making.

- The opportunity to build, mentor, and grow a high‑performing Salesforce engineering team.

- Direct collaboration with cross‑functional business leaders and the opportunity to influence key operational initiatives.

- A collaborative environment focused on engineering excellence, continuous improvement, platform reliability, and predictable delivery.

- Career growth through ownership of technical strategy, engineering practices, and team performance.