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Lead Full Stack Engineer, Marketing Cloud

Salesforce · San Francisco, California, US
full-timelead (6-15 yrs)Posted 21d ago
Software EngineeringIC4IC + ManagementHybridVisa Sponsored
StackJavaJavaScriptTypeScriptAjaxRESTSOAPGraphQLSQLGitPerforceEclipseIntelliJVSCodeJenkinsAgileTest Driven DevelopmentDistributed SystemsSalesforce PlatformSaaS

Summary

Salesforce is hiring a Lead Full Stack Engineer for their Unified Marketing Cloud team, responsible for designing and building next-generation marketing engagement solutions, robust APIs, and scalable distributed systems in a multi-tenant enterprise SaaS environment.

About the role

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

The Unified Marketing team is building the next generation of marketing solutions and is singularly focused on the needs of the Marketer. Our success is defined by our end-user's success with both our current and future state Marketing Engagement solutions.

We lean into cohesive end-to-end campaign management experiences, allowing our customers to humanize moments for their customers, harness efficiencies to do more with less, and optimize the impact of their marketing spend. We define and build a Marketing Engagement product portfolio that strives to meet the needs of every marketing team for customers of all sizes, shapes, and industries.

Salesforce has immediate opportunities for very versatile Software Engineers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact on users, the company's bottom line, and the industry. Marketing Cloud engineering builds innovative features across content, channels, data, and orchestration. 

You will work with a group of outstanding engineers to build the breakthrough features our customers will love, embrace, and use while keeping our trusted platform stable and scalable.

The software engineer role at Salesforce encompasses architecture, system design, implementation, and testing to ensure we build products right and release them with high quality. We pride ourselves in writing high-quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our “future self” life more manageable.

We celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while cultivating everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves. We believe autonomous teams will empower individuals, products, companies, and customers to thrive.


Your Impact:

  • Design & Develop high-quality code to improve platform reliability, availability, and scalability

  • Design, implement, and tune robust APIs and API framework-related features that perform and scale in a multi-tenant environment.

  • Lead, collaborate, communicate, and mentor others on the team and in the company.

  • Handle large data sets in the cloud.

  • Build novel capabilities and new services leveraging and extending complex platforms.

  • Design and implement intelligent and thorough testing strategies to ensure quality delivery

  • * Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real time and keep services operational and highly available.

Required skills:

  • 6+ years of professional software development experience

  • Deep knowledge of Java.

  • Knowledge of Web Services (SOAP, REST, GraphQL, etc) and a strong understanding of distributed systems and concepts such as reliability, scalability, and performance.

  • Deep knowledge of data concepts related to relational databases, including the ability to build, execute, and debug complex queries.

  • Experience developing client-side code via JavaScript/TypeScript/Ajax/etc

  • Experience developing in an enterprise environment such as source code control, IDE, continuous deployment, and release management (Git, perforce, Eclipse, Intellij, VSCode, Jenkins)

  • Experience with Agile software development and Test Driven Development methodologies

  • Experience with complex platforms

  • Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment


Preferred Skills:

  • Excellent cross-group communication and problem-solving skills

  • Provide technical and architectural leadership in a global and diverse organization.

  • Experience developing with the Salesforce Platform.

  • Experience building Software as a Service (SaaS) applications for enterprise customers.

*IN SCHOOL OR GRADUATED WITHIN THE LAST 12 MONTHS? PLEASE VISIT FUTURE FORCE FOR OPPORTUNITIES*

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

Accommodations

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.

Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options.

Posting Statement

Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.

In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. Salesforce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including: time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.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.

At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

What you'll do

1Design and develop high-quality code to improve platform reliability, availability, and scalability
2Design, implement, and tune robust APIs and API framework features for multi-tenant environments
3Lead, collaborate, communicate, and mentor other engineers on the team and across the company
4Handle large data sets in the cloud
5Build novel capabilities and new services leveraging and extending complex platforms
6Design and implement intelligent and thorough testing strategies to ensure quality delivery
7Participate in on-call rotation to address complex production issues and maintain high availability

Requirements

6+ years of professional software development with deep expertise in Java and enterprise-grade backend systems
Strong knowledge of web services (REST, SOAP, GraphQL) and distributed systems concepts including reliability, scalability, and performance
Deep understanding of relational databases including writing, executing, and debugging complex SQL queries
Experience with client-side development using JavaScript/TypeScript and enterprise tooling (Git, Jenkins, CI/CD)
Proven ability to lead, mentor engineers, and provide technical and architectural direction in a global organization

Nice to have

Salesforce Platform development
SaaS enterprise application development
Cross-group communication and problem-solving
Technical architectural leadership in diverse global organizations

Role overview

Role family
Software Engineering
Level
IC4 — fullstack
Experience
6–15 years
Type
Hybrid (IC + Management)
Remote policy
Hybrid
Visa sponsorship
Available

Tech stack analysis

LANGUAGES
JavaJavaScriptTypeScript
DATABASES
Relational databases (SQL)
INFRASTRUCTURE
JenkinsGitPerforceCI/CD pipelinesMulti-tenant cloud infrastructure
TOOLS
EclipseIntelliJVSCodeGitPerforceJenkins

Green flags

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Benefits breakdown

HEALTH & WELLNESS
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Mental health support
Life and disability insurance

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Hiring insights

JD quality
8/10
Urgency
high
Autonomy
high
Team size
medium (5-15)

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Red flags

PRO4 items
On-call rotation is required, which may impact work-life balance depending on frequency and severity of incidents.work life balance

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Interview insights

PRO
Rounds
5
Duration
4 wks
Difficulty
hard
Take-home
No

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Career path

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About the company

Salesforce is the world's #1 CRM platform, serving over 150,000 companies with cloud-based sales, service, marketing, and analytics tools. With products like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and the Einstein AI platform, Salesforce powers customer relationships for enterprises from startups to Fortune 500 companies across every industry.

HQSan Francisco, CA, USA
Interview difficultyhard
Build vs Maintainboth
Cross-functionalYes