Lead Software Engineer, Heroku

Salesforce

full-time

Posted on: 9/6/2025

Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $184,000 - $253,000 per year

Senior

Distributed SystemsElixirGoHerokuJavaPythonRubySFDC

About the role

Collaborate closely with Heroku billing support to resolve customer issues
Build alignment and communication with several engineering and business operational organizations
Deliver innovative features on complex distributed systems
Maintain and modernize internal legacy systems (Ruby and Elixir) with focus on maintainability and architecture
Be operationally excellent and participate in production on-call and observability practices
Design, build, and maintain production services at scale, including RESTful APIs and transaction management

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrable focus on large-scale, distributed, or billing-intensive systems
Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining production services at scale in demanding, customer-facing environments
Strong knowledge of transaction management concepts (concurrency, consistency, isolation levels) and experience applying them in real systems
Experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs for mission-critical workflows
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Ruby, Elixir, Java, Python, Go) and ability to adapt across languages as needed
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work closely with cross-functional partners
A passion for teaching, mentoring, and continuous learning
A related technical degree required