Sr. Salesforce Application Developer

Uber Uber · Consumer · San Francisco, CA +1 · Engineering

This role is for a Sr. Application Engineer on the Sales Automation Engineering team, focusing on designing and delivering features for the CRM technology stack, specifically Salesforce. The role involves integrating with internal and external platforms to empower Sales and Support teams, impacting user growth and revenue generation. Responsibilities include driving technical projects, designing and shipping features, collaborating with stakeholders, ensuring scalable system designs, creating documentation, and mentoring junior engineers. Requires 5+ years of software development and Salesforce experience, knowledge of APIs, Apex, Lightning, SOQL/SOSL, and cloud platforms like AWS/GCP. Preferred qualifications include DevOps experience and a product-minded approach.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive complex technical projects with significant ownership
  2. Design, implement, and ship reliable and well-tested features to our users while setting high standards for code quality and maintainability.
  3. Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders, solution architects, product managers, and other engineering teams to define project requirements, execution plans, and technical strategy.
  4. Ensure that system designs, including APIs, architecture, and dependency selection, result in scalable, resilient solutions that minimize support costs and enhance the user experience, often solving for complex, ambiguous, or multi-system problems.
  5. Create comprehensive documentation for the solutions, including design specifications, deployment guides, and operational support documentation, championing best practices in documentation.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of professional software development experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on Salesforce application development experience.
  • Strong understanding of the Salesforce platform, including its capabilities and constraints.
  • Solid grasp of object-oriented programming principles.
  • Experience developing in one or more languages such as C#, Java, Go, or Python.
  • Hands-on experience with SOAP, REST, and Bulk APIs, including API design, development, and management.
  • Practical experience with Apex, Lightning (LWC), and SOQL/SOSL.
  • Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, technical teams, and stakeholders to gather requirements and articulate product features, technical designs, and overall strategy.
  • Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

  • MS in Computer Science or related field.
  • Knowledgeable and an advocate for software engineering best practices throughout the entire software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms, especially Salesforce, and hands-on experience with complex, large-scale cloud-based integrations.
  • Deep understanding of DevOps practices and tools, including designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines.
  • Extensive experience working in Agile development environments, with a strong commitment to delivering iterative, high-quality solutions.
  • Enjoys solving complex, ambiguous business problems through innovative and technology-driven solutions, demonstrating a product-minded approach.

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of hands-on Salesforce application development experience.