Senior Software Engineer
Key Skills for This Role
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Qualifications
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading the design and delivery of complex enterprise solutions
- 5+ years architecting, designing and developing on the Salesforce platform, with deep understanding of its capabilities, limitations and architectural patterns
- Strong hands-on experience with Apex, LWC, SOQL/SOSL, APIs, integrations and Salesforce data/security models
- Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership across engineering teams, including solution design, code/design reviews and technical decision-making
- Proven ability to mentor engineers, raise engineering standards and influence teams without direct authority
- Experience owning large or complex solutions end-to-end, including architecture, estimation, delivery, production readiness and ongoing modernization
- Strong experience designing enterprise integrations and API-based solutions across Salesforce and distributed systems
- Ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs, manage technical risk and drive alignment across Product, Engineering and Architecture stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, take ownership and drive complex problems to resolution
- BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions.
Responsibilities
- We are looking for engineers with a strong foundation, which you can demonstrate through a combination of formal education, self-learning, own projects or a formal working experience. If you are not willing to learn and write code, then this is not the job for you.
- Lead the design and delivery of complex Salesforce solutions, integrations and platform capabilities, from requirements through production.
- Provide technical leadership and architectural direction, translating business needs into scalable, maintainable and secure solutions.
- Own solutions end-to-end, proactively identifying dependencies, technical risks and trade-offs and driving them to resolution.
- Lead technical design discussions and influence decisions across Product, Engineering, Architecture and partner teams.
- Mentor and guide engineers, providing technical coaching, thoughtful code/design reviews and helping raise engineering standards across the team.
- Remain hands-on with development while leading by example in code quality, testing, automation, observability and engineering best practices.
- Drive modernization and simplification of the Salesforce platform, including reducing technical debt and improving platform scalability and maintainability.
- Identify opportunities to improve CI/CD, developer productivity, automation and engineering processes.
- Evaluate and champion adoption of new Salesforce capabilities and technologies where they create meaningful business or engineering value.
- Navigate ambiguity, challenge existing approaches when appropriate, and drive alignment and resolution across teams.
- Promote inner sourcing, reusable capabilities and engineering practices that benefit the broader technology organization.
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