Salesforce Engineering Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of Salesforce engineers, providing technical direction, mentoring, and career development.
• Own the Salesforce engineering strategy, architecture, development standards, and technical roadmap.
• Design and oversee scalable Salesforce solutions across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and other Salesforce platforms.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Solution Architects, Business Analysts, and Engineering teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Review technical designs, Apex code, LWC implementations, integrations, and ensure adherence to Salesforce best practices.
• Drive development using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOQL/SOSL, Salesforce APIs, and declarative Salesforce capabilities.
• Lead Salesforce integrations with internal and external systems using REST, SOAP, middleware, and event-driven architectures.
• Establish and maintain CI/CD, source control, release management, and DevOps practices using Salesforce DX and appropriate tooling.
• Ensure solutions meet requirements for security, scalability, performance, data integrity, and maintainability.
• Drive Salesforce deployment, release planning, environment management, and production readiness.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and architectural gaps and drive their resolution.
• Establish engineering metrics and continuously improve development quality, productivity, and delivery processes.
• Manage technical projects, priorities, resources, timelines, and delivery commitments.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop Salesforce engineers while fostering a strong engineering culture.
• Partner with enterprise architecture and security teams to ensure alignment with organizational technology standards.
• Stay current with Salesforce platform releases and evaluate new capabilities to improve business solutions.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in Salesforce development and engineering, with relevant experience leading teams or technical initiatives.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Apex, LWC, SOQL, SOSL, Salesforce APIs, and Salesforce platform architecture.
• Proven experience designing and delivering scalable Salesforce solutions and integrations.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce data modeling, security, sharing rules, profiles, permission sets, and governor limits.
• Experience with Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Revenue Cloud/CPQ, or industry-specific Salesforce solutions.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce integration patterns, REST/SOAP APIs, Platform Events, Change Data Capture, and middleware such as MuleSoft.
• Experience with Salesforce DX, Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and Salesforce DevOps/release management.
• Good understanding of system design, design patterns, application architecture, performance optimization, and cloud technologies.
• Experience managing technical teams, including mentoring, hiring, performance management, resource planning, and career development.
• Strong ability to collaborate with Product, Architecture, Security, Business, and Engineering stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and managing multiple priorities and delivery timelines.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical leadership with people and delivery management.
• B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related discipline; MCA/M.Tech or equivalent technical qualification is also acceptable.
• Salesforce certifications such as Platform Developer II, Platform App Builder, Application Architect, System Architect, or relevant Cloud certifications are highly desirable.