Director/Sr Director of Software Engineering, Salesforce
$230.8-384.1k
+ Employee stock purchasing program
World's leading CRM provider
Be an early applicant
World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$230.8-384.1k
+ Employee stock purchasing program
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- This role demands a deep understanding of modern technology stacks and engineering principles, with an ability to drive the development and adoption of innovative, AI-driven solutions that meet the complex and evolving needs of Salesforce’s growing Technology organization
- Experience with Salesforce technologies (including Agentforce, Data Cloud, and Heroku) is a plus, but your expertise in building scalable, high-performance systems is paramount
- Your exceptional oral and written communication skills will be critical in articulating technical strategy, influencing outcomes, and representing the team's contributions across the organization
- 10+ years of experience leading software engineering teams with a strong track record in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment
- 5+ years of experience programming with Apex (classes, triggers, and web services), and other OOP languages (Java, etc.) is preferred
- Experience integrating and scaling AI-assisted or ML-powered experiences across web or app platforms
- Hands-on knowledge of software engineering best practices including continuous delivery, testing strategies, accessibility, and internationalization
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices on the Salesforce platform
- Experience working in Extreme Programming work environments with Test Driven Development and Mob Programming is preferred
- Experience with agile methodologies and acting as a Scrum Master
- Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and lead with empathy and clarity
- Experience working on customer-facing products with fast release cycles and high reliability requirements
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a keen ability to partner with global teams
- A related technical degree required (Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field, or relevant experience)
What the job involves
- As a Director/ Senior Director of Engineering in the Accelerated Engineering team, you will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for a software engineering team dedicated to advancing the productivity of the TechCOO organization
- You will be responsible for cultivating a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement, fostering an environment where practices like mob programming and test-driven development flourish at scale
- This includes mentoring and empowering engineering leaders, building trusted relationships with key stakeholders across engineering, product, and executive teams, and collectively defining and executing a roadmap for elegant, performant, and high-quality solutions
- Drive the execution and delivery of new features, tools and functionality on the Salesforce platform for the TechCOO organization
- Partner with engineers and teams to build and implement strategies for increasing product quality and delivery cadence using AI tools
- Empower teams to self-organize and continuously improve delivery velocity and quality
- Provide guidance and support to ensure Agile practices are effectively leveraged within a small, high-impact engineering team
- Make critical architectural and strategic decisions, leveraging AI and machine learning techniques to personalize and optimize user experiences and robust technical solutions
- Foresee potential design and technical challenges and resolve them proactively
- Partner closely with peer teams to identify opportunities for shared services and collaboration, and drive partnerships to achieve combined business outcomes
- Ensure teams have clear priorities, adequate resources, and the technical guidance to succeed
- Provide mentorship, career development, and hands-on technical coaching to engineers and product leads
- Foster a strong culture of collaboration, experimentation, and excellence
- Participate in architecture discussions, platform planning, and governance
- Support hiring efforts by selecting and retaining top-tier engineering talent
Our take
Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.
By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.
Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2001
$46.9m
SERIES D
Nov 1999
$13.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $64.5m
Company benefits
- With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Marc Benioff
(Chair & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.
Parker Harris
(CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.
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