Full Stack Software Engineer: Lead and Principal
Role summary
Salesforce is seeking experienced Full Stack Software Engineers for Lead and Principal roles across various teams including AppExchange, Core Platform, Slack Huddles, and AI AppDev Cloud Performance Engineering. These roles involve architecting, designing, implementing, and delivering highly scalable products, mentoring team members, and improving development processes. Candidates should have 10+ years of full-stack experience, strong object-oriented design skills, and expertise in modern web technologies, APIs, microservices, and databases. Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and technical leadership is required. Preferred qualifications include Salesforce platform experience. The role operates in a hybrid engineering model and requires participation in on-call rotations.
Description
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Team Info
AppExchange Team
The AppExchange team is architecting the future of the Salesforce ecosystem by building a next-generation, multi-cloud ISV platform designed for global scale and full transactability. As a core member of this team, you will design and deliver the "One AppExchange Framework," a dynamic services platform that integrates diverse technologies—including Einstein, MuleSoft, Tableau, and Slack—into a seamless "Discover-Purchase-Provision" lifecycle. This role offers the unique opportunity to extend the boundaries of the Salesforce platform through "AppExchange Everywhere," building intelligent, high-impact systems that empower partners to distribute innovative solutions to millions of customers worldwide.
Core Platform Team
Salesforce is seeking versatile Software Engineers to drive the architecture, design, and implementation of high-impact features across its vast product landscape, including Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, IoT, and Analytics. As part of this team, you will collaborate with world-class engineers to balance rapid innovation with the stability and scalability of a trusted enterprise platform. By submitting your resume to this general pool, you will be considered for multiple high-growth engineering roles where your code directly influences the company's bottom line and the broader software industry.
About The Slack Huddles Team
Join the team behind one of Slack's most popular features! The Huddles team owns and operates Slack's video conferencing capability, serving 4.5 million weekly active users. We're competing head-to-head with industry leaders like Google Meet and Zoom, and we're just getting started.
We're focused on an ambitious roadmap that includes cutting-edge AI integration, expanded collaboration capabilities, and enhanced meeting experiences to better serve our growing user base.
If you're excited about working on high-impact features that millions of people use every day, building the future of video collaboration, and bringing AI innovation to meetings, this is the team for you.
The AI AppDev Cloud Performance Engineering team
builds innovative tools and services to manage infrastructure on 1P and Cloud platforms, including performance and scale analysis tools for internal and public use. We provide architectural consulting, workload generation, guardrails testing, and train scrum teams on performance and scale testing best practices. If you're passionate about software performance, automation, and building cutting-edge products with phenomenal engineers, we'd love to hear from you!
As Part Of The Role, You Will
- Demonstrate experience in leading technical teams, managing project timelines, and delivering high-quality software solutions.
- Mentor and guide team members, ensuring best practices in coding, architecture, and agile methodologies.
- Architect, design, implement, test and deliver highly scalable products
- Master our development process, culture and code base, then improve it
- Operate optimally in the hybrid engineering model where engineers are encouraged to be able to craft and complete the vital work to ensure quality in their own code as well as other engineers
- Mentor others in development technologies, tools, and processes
- Present your own designs to internal/external groups and review designs of others
- Develop test strategies, design automation frameworks, write unit/functional tests to drive up code coverage and automation metrics
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address sophisticated problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available
Requirements
- 10+ years of Full Stack development experience
- Demonstrated ownership and leadership of complex projects
- Excellent object-oriented design skills anchored by experience applying design patterns
- Experienced in modern web technologies and web application development
- Experienced with JavaScript or TypeScript:
- Front End developments frameworks: React, Angular, Next.js etc
- Back End development frameworks: Java, Node.js, Express, NestJS etc
- A strong desire to learn technology and a polyglot attitude
- Experience building scalable APIs and microservices in an enterprise software environment
- Experience with relational databases (e.g. postgres) and the design of data models
- Ownership of the whole software development lifecycle, including:
- Service ownership experience with CI/CD approaches
- Experience supporting and troubleshooting software in production
- Experience with automated E2E testing frameworks & unit test frameworks
- Understanding of how to balance speed of delivery with maintainability
- A commitment to quality, stability and performance
- Excellent communication skills and a strong team player
Preferred Qualifications
- Experienced in building on top of the Salesforce Platform, with expertise in Apex and Lightning Web Components
- Conversant with Salesforce Platform features and best practices
- Experienced in developing and maintaining packaged solutions
Benefits & Perks
Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more!
Salesforce Information
Check out our Salesforce Engineering Site.
For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
