Salesforce Staff Engineer - Salesforce

This Staff Salesforce Engineer role at Sitetracker offers a technical leadership opportunity to architect scalable and resilient solutions on Force.com, influencing architectural decisions across React Native and Spark. You will own strategic charters, solve complex engineering challenges in telecom and energy, and enhance customer efficiency. As a Tech Lead, you'll define and execute technical excellence, collaborating with global teams. Responsibilities include driving architectural decision-making, authoring technical design docs, leading implementation, and ensuring system performance and security. You will also cultivate engineering craft through mentorship and code reviews, accelerating both software and organizational technical maturity.

Must Have

• Lead technical architecture for major product modules
• Design scalable, performant Salesforce solutions
• Align architectural decisions across Salesforce, React Native, and Spark
• Evaluate technical risks and make strategic trade-off decisions
• Drive platform integration at scale
• Design for extensibility, resilience, and adaptability
• Develop and implement solutions using Apex, SOQL/SOSL, LWC, and Aura
• Optimize query performance, runtime execution, and governor limit consumption
• Establish and enforce coding standards and scalable design patterns
• Build secure, high-quality, maintainable code foundations
• Implement comprehensive testing strategies
• Mentor engineers in debugging, refactoring, and architectural thinking
• Model engineering excellence and elevate team capabilities
• Collaborate with Product Managers on scope, sequencing, and feasibility
• Translate business objectives into technical execution plans
• Produce clear technical design documentation
• Advocate for scalable, customer-centric technical solutions
• Ensure technical efforts support product outcomes and customer value

The Opportunity

This isn’t just a Staff Salesforce Engineer role — it’s an opportunity to be a technical visionary and a true force multiplier within Sitetracker’s engineering organisation. You’ll own a critical strategic charter end-to-end, architecting scalable and resilient solutions on Force.com while influencing architectural decisions across complementary technologies like React Native and Spark. You’ll work on sophisticated engineering challenges across domains such as telecom and energy, delivering capabilities that directly enhance customer efficiency and unlock value.

Your success will be defined not just by what you build — but by the technical standards you elevate, the mentorship you provide, the innovation you spark, and the long-term architectural health you drive across the platform. If you thrive on technical excellence, strategic ownership, and building elite engineering cultures, you will find immense purpose and impact here.

What You’ll do:

As a Staff Salesforce Engineer & Tech Lead, you’ll take the lead in defining, executing, and raising the bar for technical excellence. You’ll collaborate deeply with engineering, product, and design partners across global teams and guide your development pod through clarity of thought, strategic technical prioritisation, and rigorous execution.

You’ll drive architectural decision-making, author technical design docs, lead implementation, solve high-complexity platform challenges, and ensure our systems remain performant, secure, and future-ready. You’ll be an active cultivator of engineering craft — enabling others to grow through mentorship, code reviews, pairing, and modelling best-in-class engineering behaviours. Your role will accelerate not only our software but our organisation’s long-term technical maturity and velocity.

The Skills You’ll Have:

Technical Architecture & Platform Design

+ Able to lead technical architecture for major product modules and design scalable, performant Salesforce solutions.

+ Ensures architectural decisions align across Salesforce and complementary technologies like React Native and Spark.

+ Evaluates technical risks and makes strategic trade-off decisions.

+ Drives platform integration at scale, aligning data models and execution flows.

+ Designs for extensibility, resilience, and long-term adaptability.

Excellence in Salesforce Engineering & Platform Execution

+ Develops and implements solutions using Apex, SOQL/SOSL, LWC, and Aura with deep platform knowledge.

+ Optimises query performance, runtime execution, and governor limit consumption.

+ Establishes and enforces coding standards and scalable design patterns.

+ Builds secure, high-quality, maintainable code foundations.

+ lmplements comprehensive testing strategies, including performance and security validation.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

+ Mentors engineers through hands-on guidance in debugging, refactoring, and architectural thinking.

+ Models engineering excellence and elevates team capabilities.

+ Promotes a culture of continuous learning and documentation.

+ Facilitates knowledge-sharing sessions and technical deep dives.

+ Guides teams to operate with stronger technical clarity and ownership.

Product Collaboration & Cross-Functional Influence

+ Collaborates with Product Managers to align scope, sequencing, and feasibility.

+ Translates business objectives into well-formed technical execution plans.

+ Produces clear technical design documentation for diverse audiences.

+ Influences decision-making by advocating for scalable, customer-centric technical solutions.

+ Ensures technical efforts directly support product outcomes and customer value.

Within 90 Days, You’ll:

• Develop a deep understanding of core Salesforce product modules and their execution patterns.
• Ramp fully into Sitetracker’s technology stack, architectural guidelines, and engineering principles.
• Deliver enhancements and fixes that demonstrate quality, speed, and architectural alignment.
• Contribute meaningful insight through code reviews and technical recommendations.
• Build strong working relationships across engineering, product, and design.

Within 180 Days, You'll:

• Design, build, and release large-impact platform components or features.
• Serve as the primary technical reference for key modules in the stack.
• Lead incident investigations and drive preventative improvements.
• Identify areas of technical debt and initiate prioritised remediation efforts.
• Shape roadmap discussions by offering well-reasoned technical perspectives.

Within 365 Days, You'll:

• Drive a significant technical or product initiative from initial concept through launch, adoption, and stability.
• Elevate team technical maturity through ongoing mentorship, code quality improvements, and process refinements.
• Improve system maintainability, scalability, and developer productivity through modernisation or re-architecture efforts.
• Reduce defects and accelerate development velocity through improved engineering practices.
• Become a domain expert in the industries served (telecom, EV, renewables, utilities), applying that knowledge to system design and product evolution.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.