Engineering Manager, Salesforce

Team: IT

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Salesforce engineers and administrators through performance management, career development, mentoring, recruitment, and onboarding.

• Collaborate with platform operations and Salesforce architecture teams to prioritize initiatives, manage team capacity, and ensure predictable delivery.

• Maintain an active technical contribution, dedicating approximately 25% of a typical engineering cycle to hands-on development.

• Partner with business stakeholders across Customer Care, Operations, Finance, Product, and leadership to understand requirements and deliver scalable Salesforce solutions.

• Establish and promote engineering best practices, including code reviews, automated testing, source-driven development, and technical documentation.

• Improve platform stability, performance, and maintainability while identifying and reducing technical debt.

• Act as an escalation point for technical incidents, facilitate blameless postmortems, and drive continuous improvement.

• Ensure that team priorities, workloads, deliverables, and progress are clearly documented, tracked, and communicated.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial hands-on development experience.

• 4+ years of experience managing Salesforce engineering teams, including developers and/or administrators.

• Deep technical expertise in Salesforce technologies, including Apex, SOQL, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flow, security and sharing models, governor limits, and Salesforce data architecture.

• Strong experience with Salesforce DevOps practices and tools, including Salesforce DX (SFDX), Git, source-driven development, CI/CD pipelines, sandbox management, and automated testing.

• Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into practical technical solutions and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong leadership, mentoring, coaching, communication, organizational, and prioritization skills.

• Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on engineering responsibilities with people management and team development.

• Experience in hospitality, travel, timeshare, vacation ownership, or reservation-based industries is a plus.

• Familiarity with Salesforce Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, or Marketing Cloud is an advantage.

• Experience using Linear or similar project management tools is desirable.

• Knowledge of AI-assisted development tools and experience introducing them into engineering workflows is a plus.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to lead a critical technology function and influence the development of a business-critical Salesforce platform.

• Remote work flexibility within the United States, with an additional location option in Portland, Oregon.

• A hands-on leadership position combining technical challenges with team development and strategic decision-making.

• The opportunity to build, mentor, and grow a high-performing Salesforce engineering team.

• Direct collaboration with cross-functional business leaders and the opportunity to influence key operational initiatives.

• A collaborative environment focused on engineering excellence, continuous improvement, platform reliability, and predictable delivery.

• Career growth through ownership of technical strategy, engineering practices, and team performance.