Backend Software Engineer – Senior/Staff

Salesforce

full-time

Posted on: 9/4/2025

Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $172,000 - $334,600 per year

Senior

AndroidDistributed SystemsGoiOSJavaLinuxMySQLPHPPythonRubySFDC

About the role

Design and build systems that power collaboration between Slack and Salesforce, including embedding Slack into Salesforce UI and surfacing Salesforce data in Slack
Build features, design and implement API methods, and improve performance and reliability as product scales
Brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Backend, and Frontend Engineers to conceptualize and build new features
Produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant business impact
Actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health while improving surrounding systems
Assist support and operations teams in triaging and resolving production issues
Mentor other engineers and perform deep code reviews
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

A related technical degree required
You’ve been building web applications professionally for 7+ years
Experience with functional or imperative programming languages — e.g., PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, Go, or C
Familiarity with PHP/Hack, Java, MySQL, and Linux is a plus
Familiarity with other common web languages (such as Python or Ruby) and other relational databases are fine substitutes
Ability to contribute to technical architecture discussions and help drive technical decisions within your team
Write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability
Strong communicator; able to explain complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers
Solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval
Embrace the hybrid working model; collaborating in office at least 10 days per quarter