Principal Engineer

11 Months ago • 10 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Haleon, a leading consumer health company, is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer specializing in Salesforce SaaS solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive expertise in Salesforce Service, Commerce, and Experience Cloud development, focusing on scalable, secure, and efficient services. This role involves acting as the highest skilled individual contributor, collaborating with Salesforce DevOps teams to support Customer Service, B2B Commerce, and Consumer Relation Management systems. The Principal Engineer will champion best practices such as micro-services architecture, API-First, event-based integration, Cloud Native/SaaS hosting, and headless CMS. The position offers an opportunity to drive the strategic direction of the Salesforce ecosystem and ensure seamless platform integration across the company's Salesforce estate. This role emphasizes technical leadership, mentorship, and proactive contribution to engineering practices and business objectives.
Must have:
  • Senior IC with deep technical knowledge
  • Lead and deliver projects of high complexity
  • Resolve critical business problems and incidents
  • Mentor other engineers and provide feedback
  • Contribute to team/business roadmaps
  • Foster collaboration between product and engineering
  • Demonstrate product awareness
  • Ensure team focus on quarterly goals
  • Proven track record in Salesforce development
  • Expertise in Salesforce Service, Commerce, Experience Cloud
  • Experience with Apex, LWC, integrations, data migrations
  • In-depth understanding of Salesforce architecture best practices
  • Proficiency with Salesforce Flows and standard objects
  • Extensive experience with Salesforce DevOps automation (GitHub Actions)
  • Hands-on experience with REST APIs and event-based services
  • Strong passion for clean, maintainable, and testable code
  • Working knowledge of Scrum-based Agile development
  • Multiple Salesforce certifications
  • Proven experience with architecture and solution design
  • Deep domain and engineering management expertise
  • Demonstrable tech leadership
Good to have:
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Experience working with geographically distributed teams or vendors
Perks:
  • Competitive base salary
  • Contract of employment
  • Annual bonus
  • Car or car allowance
  • Life insurance and pension plan
  • Private medical package with preventive healthcare
  • Sports cards (Multisport)
  • Health and wellbeing programmes
  • Pension plan membership and savings programmes
  • Recognition programmes
  • Hybrid work philosophy
  • Development possibilities

Job Details

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:

  • A competitive base salary
  • Contract of employment
  • Annual bonus that reflects performance
  • Car or car allowance
  • Life insurance and pension plan
  • Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible
  • Sports cards (Multisport)
  • Health and wellbeing programmes that take care of you physically and mentally
  • Pension plan membership and savings programmes
  • Recognition programmes that reward incredible contributions
  • Hybrid@Haleon our philosophy to hybrid work
  • Possibilities of development within the role and company’s structure

Location – this role is based in: Poland, Warsaw

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Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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About The Company

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leadingconsumer healthcarecompany. Shaped by all of us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for millions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol,Advil, 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 building together. In anenvironment thatwe’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us.

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