Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Corega, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.
This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.
About the role
The Principal Engineer is experienced software engineer specializing in developing solutions through Salesforce SaaS. The ideal candidate possesses extensive expertise in Salesforce Service Commerce and Experience development, with a keen focus on designing scalable, secure, and efficient Salesforce services. The Principal Engineer will act as the highest skilled individual contributor and will cooperate closely with our Salesforce DevOps teams supporting Customer Service, B2B Commerce and Consumer Relation Management systems. The Principal Engineer will champion best practices in software engineering including micro-services architecture, API-First and event-based integration, Cloud Native/SaaS hosting and headless CMS. This role offers the opportunity to drive the strategic direction of our Salesforce ecosystem and ensure seamless platform integration across our Salesforce estate.
The Principal Engineer is the most senior Individual Contributor (IC) and excels through in depth technical knowledge of specific technical domains.
Contributes to their team or domain meeting goals through successfully leading and consistently delivering on projects of highly ambiguous scope, high complexity and critical business impact.
Can be deployed to highest priority business problems or fires, can quickly resolve them and help the business understand how to avoid them in future.
Proactively contributes to the betterment of other engineers in the company, through mentoring and providing constructive, candid feedback.
Proactively gives technical and strategic feedback on projects relevant to their expertise that leads to better outcomes.
Directly impacts the trajectory of the company both through working on the most impactful problems and being able to bring about change with effective momentum.
Links technical contribution back to business impact for their team or area and helps others to buy into this.
Consistently leads their team to good outcomes from a technical perspective, ensuring appropriate engineering decisions are made to factor in technical debt, systems design, stability/reliability, monitoring/observability and business need.
Is regularly recognized in their team and collective for highly impactful technical contributions of the highest quality.
Proposes changes to technical scope to handle changing business priorities or urgency.
Leads the refactoring of complex systems or problems when it is warranted. Can make pragmatic trade-offs between perfection and technical debt which aligns with our priorities as a business, including how to repay debt.
Has the skills to competently work on complex and unknown problems under pressure (e.g. debugging complex production issues at speed, or leading the resolution of critical or major incidents)
Can demonstrate their technical skills outside of code, and leads the design process for complex technical problems in their team or collective.
Contributes to architecture forums, takes part in initiatives to improve the practices of the engineering discipline.
Can clearly and confidently articulate risk of technical problems to non-technical stakeholders (e.g. legal, compliance)
Communicates effectively when representing Engineering to external stakeholders when appropriate.
Actively and regularly offers well considered contributions to the roadmap of their team or business area.
Fosters effective collaboration between product, engineering and architecture.
Demonstrates product-awareness. Offers valuable contributions to quarterly planning rituals, and works with the PM or team lead on setting the vision for a team.
Ensures their team is focusing on work that will drive forward quarterly goals or business objectives, whilst reducing the operational impact for engineers and Ops.
Repeatedly consulted for advice by engineers from different teams or collectives.
Proactively stays up to date with technology trends in their area, and uses this knowledge to contribute thoughts on their team’s strategy.
Works to enable groups of others to improve coding standards and awareness of best practices around non-functional requirements (e.g. performance, testability, scale, security)
Tackles problems before they can do harm, knowing which levers to pull to make change happen.
Leads the refactoring of complex systems or problems when it is warranted. Can make pragmatic trade-offs between perfection and technical debt which aligns with our priorities as a business, including how to repay debt.
Has the skills to competently work on complex and unknown problems under pressure (e.g. debugging complex production issues at speed, or leading the resolution of critical or major incidents)
Can demonstrate their technical skills outside of coding, and leads the design process for complex technical problems in their team or collective.
Articulates risk of technical problems to non technical stakeholders (e.g. legal, compliance) and Communicates effectively when representing Engineering to external stakeholders (e.g. auditors, regulators, third-parties, or industry groups) when appropriate
Actively and regularly offers well considered contributions to the roadmap of their team or business area.
Fosters effective collaboration between product, engineering and architecture.
Qualifications and skills
Proven track record in Salesforce administration or development roles with deep knowledge, across Salesforce Service, Commerce and Experience Cloud platforms.
Extensive experience developing Salesforce customizations using Apex, Lightning Experience (LEX) and Lightning Web Components (LWC), performing integrations, and executing data migrations.
In-depth understanding of Salesforce architectural and operational best practice.
Proficiency with Salesforce Flows, standard objects, and core platform capabilities.
Extensive experience with Salesforce DevOps automation with GitHub Actions, covering deployment, releases and testing in continuous integration, continuous delivery workflows.
Hands-on experience of integrating with REST APIs and Event-based services.
A strong passion for creating clean, maintainable & highly testable code and components.
Working knowledge of Scrum based Agile development.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field – or equivalent practical experience.
Around 10 years of experience in software engineering, with experience in leadership role (e.g. Senior/Principal Software Engineer, Team Lead).
Multiple Salesforce Architect or Developer certifications.
Proven experience with architecture and solution design in software engineering.
Deep domain & engineering management expertise and experience.
Demonstrable tech leadership.
Experience working with geographically distributed teams or vendor partners.
Opportunities for growth
Improving everyday health takes dedication. Energy. Effort. So we look to reward your contribution with a benefits package that includes:
Location – this role is based in: Poland, Warsaw
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