Engineering Manager-Salesforce

Overview

Engineering Manager-Salesforce responsible for building and managing high-performing Salesforce engineering teams, driving Agile delivery, defining technical direction, managing integrations, and ensuring scalable, high-quality engineering deliverables.

What you'll do

• Build and take ownership of the Salesforce engineering team and drive excellence.
• Brainstorm ways to improve training, processes, and hiring.
• Participate in coaching, personal development, performance management, and career growth for team members.
• Set clear expectations and goals and create opportunities for team members to showcase their work.
• Facilitate team-building activities.
• Build an in-depth understanding of the code owned by the team.
• Encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration.
• Identify and address recurring issues in development cycles and improve development speed.
• Ensure code quality and best practices.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical designs.
• Provide high-level technical recommendations, approaches, and feedback.
• Create and maintain project timelines.
• Identify dependencies between systems and facilitate communication between cross-functional teams.
• Drive feature execution and delivery with multifunctional teams, architects, product owners, and engineers.
• Conduct risk assessments throughout project lifecycles and provide stakeholders with progress updates.
• Resolve cross-team coordination issues that may impact progress.
• Manage expectations and negotiate scope changes.
• Facilitate decision-making when trade-offs are necessary.
• Ensure smooth handoff between development and QA and plan software releases.
• Identify repetitive tasks that can be automated.
• Encourage development of internal tools to boost productivity.
• Allocate time for refactoring and system improvements.
• Encourage experimentation with new tools or methodologies.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of overall experience in engineering.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience working in Salesforce.
• Proven experience developing Salesforce solutions with a deep understanding of Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components, and Salesforce APIs.
• Experience in Salesforce CPQ, Sales, Manufacturing, Service, and Data Cloud.
• Experience designing and implementing custom solutions aligned with business needs.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce data modeling, reporting, and database design.
• Experience playing the role of an Architect.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining integrations between Salesforce and external applications.
• 3+ years of leading software engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and leading engineers.
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce product and platform features, capabilities, and best use of it.
• Ability to quickly grasp and distinctly explain technological and business concepts.
• Experience in CI/CD.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies and practices.
• Prior experience leading teams in an Agile environment.
• Strong oral and written communication, organizational, and time management skills.
• Ability to set priorities and multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated analytical thinking and problem-solving.
• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and product management to understand requirements and describe software product features and technical designs.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree preferred.
• A good understanding of enterprise architecture principles is strongly preferred.
• Active Salesforce Certifications are desirable, preferably Development Lifecycle & Deployment Architect and Application Architect.
• Experience in Mulesoft is a plus.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.
• Office-based role.