Lead/Staff Backend Software Engineer, Salesforce
Slack, Product
$172-334.6k
+ Employee stock purchasing program
World's leading CRM provider
Open for applications
World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$172-334.6k
+ 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
- We are seeking product-driven backend engineers with strong intuition and experience who build systems and design APIs with the end user in mind
- A related technical degree required
- You’ve been building web applications professionally for 7+ years
- You have experience with functional or imperative programming languages — e.g., PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, Go, or C
- You can contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team
- You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability
- You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you
- You possess solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval
- You embrace the hybrid working model; collaborating in office at least 10 days per quarter
What the job involves
- The Slackforce team is at the forefront of a strategic initiative to transform enterprise collaboration by seamlessly integrating Slack and Salesforce
- Our core mission is to redefine how businesses operate, making two of the world’s most widely used platforms feel like one unified, intuitive system
- Following Salesforce's acquisition of Slack in December 2020, our work is pivotal in establishing Slack as the primary frontend for the Salesforce platform. With Slack's acclaimed product and friendly chat-based interface, it is also becoming Salesforce’s primary interface for their Agentic AI experience
- As the central pillar driving this integration, we build the connective tissue that brings Salesforce data and workflows directly into Slack, while embedding Slack conversations directly within the Salesforce UI
- We bring the 20% of Salesforce features that users utilize 80% of the time directly into the Slack interface, empowering sellers to update account, opportunity, and deal records, and progress their sales motions directly from their flow of work in Slack
- We are building Salesforce Channels, an innovative feature that links a Salesforce record (structured data) to a Slack channel (unstructured data). This enables Slack to pull structured data from Salesforce into the channel view, where users can directly edit information, trigger workflows, and automate notifications based on record updates
- We are a team of product engineers who deeply care about the user experience
- Our ideal candidates are collaborative, partnering closely with product managers, designers, and frontend/mobile engineers to conceptualize and build new features
- You will be instrumental in designing and owning systems and APIs that directly shape Slack’s product experience, ensuring they are scalable, performant, and precisely tailored to real user needs, while making smart trade-offs between speed, cost, and user experience
- We value engineers who understand that simplicity and reliability are carefully calculated aspects of system design
- We build our app using reliable tools that our team knows and trusts, including PHP/Hack, Java, MySQL, and Linux. Expertise in these areas is a huge plus, but having familiarity with other common web languages (such as Python or Ruby) and other relational databases are fine substitutes
- You'll brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers on your team to conceptualize and build new features for our large (and growing!) user base
- You’ll produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant impact on the business
- You’ll actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems
- You'll assist our skilled support team and operations team in triaging and resolving production issues
- You'll mentor other engineers and deeply review code
- You’ll improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
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
SoMa, 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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