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Lead Back End Engineer, Digital Marketing Technology

Salesforce
San Francisco, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 Feb 2026
💰 $285,800/yr($172,500/yr$285,800/yr)

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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 Lead Engineer role would be part of Salesforce’s Digital Marketing Technology group, responsible for the innovation of our Salesforce digital experiences globally, leveraging best-in-class technology and systems to pioneer the “next-gen” stack for Content management , Content classification, Experimentation A/B Testing and Multi-variate testing etc.

This role encompasses defining and overseeing architecture, design, implementation, and testing strategies, ensuring technical excellence, long-term scalability, and high-quality product delivery across the digital experience. You will be working with a group of world-class engineers to build the breakthrough features our customers will love and adopt while keeping our trusted platform stable and scalable
 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Establish the technical vision and unlock best-in-class capabilities in the marketing technology ecosystem

  • Serve as the technical leader, providing solution guidance, influencing technical decisions across multiple teams and the broader organization, while ensuring optimal business outcomes.

  • Proactively partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define, shape, and champion the technical aspects of product roadmaps to align with business goals and architectural vision.

  • Drive the design and architecture of complex, high-impact technical solutions that translate business requirements into robust, scalable, reliable, and secure systems, while leveraging of Salesforce product suite.

  • Design, build, test, and deliver scalable, extensible, maintainable and observable services that are consumed by www.salesforce.com as well as other website experiences on the Salesforce digital platform

  • Innovate and invent the future of Agile and DevOps, drive continuous improvement with a focus on process, controls, scalability, and maturity.

  • Continuously evaluate, assess, and advocate for the adoption of cutting-edge tools and technologies that drive significant improvements in engineering efficiency, productivity, and future-proofing.

  • Elevate the overall technical strength of the engineering organization by actively coaching, mentoring, and setting a high bar for technical excellence, architecture, and engineering best practices.

  • Cultivate and thrive in a culture of ownership, high-quality delivery, and continuous innovation.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of professional software development experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining large-scale, highly performant, and resilient production services.

  • Proficient in modern software architectural principles and patterns for Domain-driven design.

  • Experience developing back-end software with Typescript and Node.js.

  • Experience in building scalable applications based on micro-service architecture in public cloud infrastructure with AWS (preferred).

  • Experience with Lambda , API Gateway, DynamoDB , AppSync, SNS, SQS, OpenSearch, ElastiCache etc).

  • Experience with NoSQL databases - DynamoDB, Graph databases (Neo4j, Neptune, etc), Web Services (REST, GraphQL) & Data streams (Kafka, Kinesis, etc).

  • Experience with web security, including JWT lifecycle management, CORS, CSP, and XSS prevention.

  • Experience in test-driven development and testing frameworks like Jest, Playwright, etc.

  • Experience in Service orchestration using tools like Terraform (preferred).

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.

  • A related technical degree required.

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