Lead CRM Engineer

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. Provide hands-on engineering leadership for an assigned Salesforce CRM platform .

Posted 11/2/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $80,000 - $131,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive hands-on experience with Salesforce CRM platform management, including configuration, customization, and development. Capable of leading engineering teams while providing technical direction, coaching, and performance management.

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Salesforce ConfigurationApex DevelopmentLightning Web ComponentsCI/CD PracticesSalesforce Platform Developer I Certification

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Hard Skills

Salesforce ApplicationsCustom DevelopmentData MigrationAPIsSalesforce Data ModelingIntegration PatternsTechnical Specifications WritingRoot Cause AnalysisPerformance MonitoringTechnical Impact Analysis

Soft Skills

CoachingProblem-SolvingPrioritizationFeedbackCommunication

Tools & Technologies

DevSecOpsMiddlewareREST APIsEvent-Driven PatternsSource Control

Certifications & Qualifications

Salesforce Platform Developer I CertificationSalesforce Platform Developer II Certification

Industry Keywords

CRM FundamentalsSalesforce ImplementationsTechnical LeadershipEngineering StandardsProduction Environments

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide hands-on engineering leadership for an assigned Salesforce CRM platform
Lead engineers supporting the platform and remain hands-on while providing supervision, coaching, technical direction, and work assignment
Manage CRM Engineers through coaching, performance feedback, goal setting, workload management, career development, and technical mentoring
Lead Salesforce configuration, customization, development, testing, maintenance, and optimization
Lead technical discovery and engineering solutioning before sprint commitment
Translate product requirements and approved solution architecture into feasible, sized, development-ready work
Provide input into solution design and implementation, encouraging small, testable increments and rapid feedback
Lead peer code reviews for Apex, Lightning Web Components, integrations, automation, and custom development
Establish coding standards, reusable engineering patterns, development practices, and platform guardrails
Manage delivery of custom development, integrations, APIs, middleware, data migration, and complex Salesforce configuration
Coordinate and direct vendor and systems-integrator developers; review deliverables and code
Partner with DevSecOps on source control, CI/CD, automated scanning, deployments, vulnerability remediation, environment management, and release controls
Partner with the Salesforce Solution Architect on complex, high-risk, cross-platform, integration-heavy, and security-sensitive decisions
Analyze downstream effects across objects, fields, automation, integrations, APIs, reporting, data flows, security, and dependent applications
Ensure system and technical regression testing for changes, releases, defects, and hotfixes
Lead responses to significant production defects and root cause analysis; implement corrective and preventive actions
Monitor platform health, technical debt, performance, obsolete components, security risks, and modernization opportunities
Participate in release planning and readiness, ensuring dependencies, testing, deployment, rollback, and documentation are complete
Maintain technical specifications, configuration and object/field documentation, integration mappings, architecture decisions, release artifacts, lessons learned, and CRM knowledge-base contributions
Maintain awareness of Salesforce engineering, platform capabilities, APIs, integration patterns, DevSecOps practices, and approved AI-assisted engineering tools
Collaborate with Product, Delivery, QA, UI/UX, Data, Security, administrators, and technology teams
Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

What you’ll need

Ability to communicate complex ideas, concepts, technical decisions, risks, and processes effectively with engineers, management, and cross-functional stakeholders
Strong hands-on experience with Salesforce applications, custom development, platform configuration, and enterprise CRM environments
Demonstrated ability to lead and develop engineers while remaining technically hands-on
Strong knowledge of Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flow/automation, Salesforce data modeling, security/sharing, APIs, asynchronous processing, and platform limits
Ability to manage technical delivery of custom development, integrations, and data migration elements of a Salesforce implementation
Ability to develop, test, maintain, and support integrations between Salesforce and SaaS, custom, cloud, or on-premises applications using REST APIs, event-driven patterns, middleware, custom connectors, and web services
Strong knowledge of source control, CI/CD, code review, testing, release management, and DevSecOps practices
Ability to perform technical impact and dependency analysis and recognize when architectural, security, data, or enterprise escalation is required
Must be able to write technical specifications, implementation documentation, root cause analyses, and engineering standards
Strong coaching, prioritization, feedback, problem-solving, and people-management skills
Ability to meet deadlines while working in an evolving, complex, and fast-paced environment
Bachelor’s degree and at least 7 years of experience as a Salesforce/CRM Engineer, Salesforce Developer, software engineer, or similar role; additional relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree
2+ years of demonstrated technical leadership, team-lead, or people-management experience
Strong understanding of CRM fundamentals and advanced Salesforce platform capabilities
Experience supporting large-scale Salesforce implementations, integrations, upgrades, and production environments
Hands-on Salesforce implementation, development, administration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization experience
Experience leading code review, technical solutioning, engineering standards, and developer mentoring
Salesforce Platform Developer I certification required
Salesforce Platform Developer II certification strongly preferred; Salesforce architecture, integration, or DevOps credentials are a plus
Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time
Will frequently communicate over video calls with internal and external stakeholders
Must be able to lift and handle equipment up to 50 pounds
Occasional after-hours or on-call work may be required for critical system maintenance or issue resolution

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Supplemental income insurance
Employer paid disability insurance
Employer paid life insurance
Pre-tax FSA for medical and dependent care
401K available