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Backend Software Development Engineer - Senior/Lead/Principal

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  • Software Engineering
    • California - San Francisco
    • Washington - Bellevue
  • Full time
  • JR249832
  • California Salary $137,100 - $323,400
  • Washington Salary $125,700 - $296,400

Description

Note: By applying to the Software Backend Development posting, recruiters and hiring managers across the organization hiring Software Engineers will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams.

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Salesforce has opportunities for experienced software developers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users, the company's bottom line, and the industry. You will be working with a group of world-class engineers to build the breakthrough features our customers will love, adopt, and use while keeping our trusted CRM platform stable and scalable. The software engineer role at Salesforce encompasses architecture, design, implementation, and testing to ensure we build products right and release them with high quality.

We pride ourselves on writing high quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier. We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while cultivating everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves. We believe that autonomous teams with the freedom to make decisions will empower the individuals, the product, the company, and the customers they serve to thrive.

Your Impact:

  • Backend application development for Marketing/Commerce/Sales/Service/Einstein/MuleSoft/Platform/Industries Clouds and Heroku

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

  • Experience handling large data sets in the cloud (e.g. GCP, AWS, Alibaba and/or Azure platforms)

  • Integration with internal/external systems

  • Test driven development practices as well as CI/CD tools and its usage

Required Skills:

  • A related technical degree required

  • 4+ years backend software development experience

  • Deep knowledge of object oriented programming languages: Java, C++, Go, C#, Ruby, Scala, Python, Node.JS, or JavaScript

  • Broad knowledge of web standards relating to APIs such as REST, SOAP, XML, WSDL, HTTP, JSON, etc.

  • Experience with Spring, gRPC, REST and the HTTP protocol

  • Experience with Agile development methodology

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


Benefits & Perks

Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more.

Salesforce Information

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For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: 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.

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Equal Opportunity Statement.

At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at www.equality.com and explore our company benefits at www.salesforcebenefits.com.

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Salesforce welcomes all.

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. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.

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