Sr. Engineer - Salesforce

TEKsystems; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Senior Salesforce Engineer to join the Advisor Marketing Practice & Promotion product team (AMPP) within the MarTech portfolio. You will leverage Salesforce development (Apex, LWCs, REST APIs) along with Java/OpenShift skills to support our field advisors and marketing platforms.

The role is 100% remote with a preference for candidates near the Minneapolis area. You will design, implement, and govern scalable software, collaborating across teams and contributing to CI/CD

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Salesforce development including Apex, LWCs, REST APIs
• SDLC practices and large Salesforce project experience
• Ability to articulate Salesforce concepts to diverse audiences
• Proven collaboration with cross-functional teams and product planning

Responsibilities

• Apply deep Salesforce knowledge to drive customer outcomes
• Develop core software delivering scalable, reliable results
• Share Salesforce innovations with the team and mentor juniors
• Collaborate in product planning and decomposing work
• Contribute to Salesforce engineering standards and templates
• Promote CI/CD and improve deployment processes
• Assist in vendor evaluations and proof of concepts
• Coach engineers and provide technical trainings

Skills

Salesforce Apex

LWCs

REST APIs

SOQL/SOSL

OpenShift

Java development

SDLC practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

GitHub

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

Description

This role is 100% remote but they will prioritize Minneapolis area

This Sr. Engineer position will sit on our Advisor Marketing Practice & Promotion product team (AMPP) within the MarTech portfolio. We build, enhance and support many features and platforms that support our field advisors in their marketing to their book of business. The team and this team member has opportunities to work with Salesforce, marketing cloud, Java apps, and other enterprise apps that are widely used by thousands of our field advisors. For development skills, I am looking for highly experienced candidates with a toolkit including Salesforce development (apex, LWCs, REST APIs), marketing cloud development, Java-based development, and OpenShift knowledge.

Advisor Marketing Value Statement:

Purpose of Advisor Marketing Practice & Promotion is to empower advisors to promote their practice and grow their business in their unique markets. We do this by equipping advisors with tools, content templates, and marketing support to build their brand, reduce friction in campaign execution, tailor promotions to local audiences, and optimize growing their practice using insights and metrics as feedback loops.

Advisor Marketing Product Outcomes:

Key Business Outcome: Drive Advisor success with client consideration and conversion outcomes that grow their business

Reduced level of effort for advisors to find, create, and personalize content to market their practice

Measurable content & template effectiveness (optimized based on metrics and campaign goals)

Enhance the advisor experience (satisfaction) w/ their ability to grow their business

Description:

As a Sr Engineer you will be considered a technical expert in one or more phases of application and/or systems engineering (Salesforce). This includes providing design recommendations based on long-term IT organization strategy and expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business. You will determine specifications, plan, design, and develop business critical software solutions, utilizing appropriate software engineering processes - either individually or in concert with product team.

Key Responsibilities

Designing Solutions

• Apply deep Salesforce technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers
• Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy

Implementing Solutions

• Member of team that can work independently, as well as collaboratively with team, in developing core software for the product that delivers outcomes.
• Consistent and dependable in delivering core software that delivers outcomes and meets/exceeds the teams expectations for stability, scalability, resilience, etc.

Learning and Applying New Techniques

• Shares new Salesforce features, ideas and techniques with team; encourages junior engineers to invest in learning as a part of their job.

Collaborating within the Team

• Participate in teams collaboration sessions to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team
• Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps team to understand and decompose work

Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns

• Contribute to develop Salesforce engineering practices , templates and frameworks in collaboration with the team.

DevOps

• Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software; Use data to measure progress
• Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.
• Participates in the team support rotation and provides expert knowledge on focus subsystems.
• Knowledge of Github, Github actions, feature branching, branch merging
• Sound knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures

Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors

• Contribute to define the selection criteria for selecting the right technology vendors
• Participate in proof of concept / technology along with the vendor

Coaching Engineers

• Provide guidance to junior engineers to help them learn foundational software engineering skills
• Provide technical expertise and help the team to solve technical/software issues
• Provide trainings to the junior developers (trailhead modules, custom development plans, etc.)
• Provide Salesforce domain expertise to junior engineers to help them learn/grow their skills and contribute as part of the team

Recruiting/Building Talent

• Engage in the local Salesforce tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and position as the employer of choice in the market
• Participate in the interview process or be part of the panel to recruit the right talent to the team
• Contribute to the recruitment to define the structure of the interview process to hire the right talent to the team.

Education

Required:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience

Required Work Experience / Skills

• 5+ years of salesforce development apex experience, lightning web components (LWCs), apex triggers, apex frameworks, REST APIs, third-party integrations with Salesforce, flows, SOQL, SOSL
• Sound knowledge of industry standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices
• Proficiency in managing large-scale Salesforce projects
• Ability to articulate and communicate complex Salesforce concepts to a wide audience (technical and non-technical)

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce Certifications Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I & II, Salesforce Certified Marketing Cloud Engagement Developer
• Partnered with engineering teams to modernize application delivery through Java-based development, OpenShift containerization, and Terraform-driven cloud infrastructure automation, enabling faster and more reliable software releases
• Experience with implementing Distributed Marketing product within Salesforce Core CRM.

Skills

Salesforce.com, Salesforce marketing cloud, Lightning, Apex, api, java, openshift, Distributed markeiting, salesforce certified

Top Skills Details

Salesforce.com,Salesforce marketing cloud,Lightning,Apex,api,java,openshift

Additional Skills & Qualifications

technical)

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce Certifications Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I & II, Salesforce Certified Marketing Cloud Engagement Developer
• Partnered with engineering teams to modernize application delivery through Java-based development, OpenShift containerization, and Terraform-driven cloud infrastructure automation, enabling faster and more reliable software releases
• Experience with implementing Distributed Marketing product within Salesforce Core CRM

Experience Level

Intermediate Level

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Minneapolis, MN.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $60.00 - $73.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your jobclassification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may besubject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefitsavailable for this temporary role may include the following:Medical, dental & visionCritical Illness, Accident, and Hospital401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions availableLife Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)Short and long-term disabilityHealth Spending Account (HSA)Transportation benefitsEmployee Assistance ProgramTime Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 5, 2026.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.