Staff engineer is hands-on engineer who designs, develops, tests, and implements complex Salesforce solutions, requiring extensive experience with the platform, coding (APEX, Lightning), and often cloud-based technologies like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Staff engineer’s influence is typically within a Technical portfolio or division reporting into a Technical manager
Technical Leadership: Executing technical direction, setting standards, and advising on complex engineering decisions.
Product Contributions: Implementing large, complex technical product decisions from inception to completion.
Mentorship & Sponsorship: Developing other engineers, raising the skills and productivity of the team.
Cross-Functional Influence: Building relationships and collaborating with other teams to align technical efforts with business goals.
Problem Solving: Solving difficult technical challenges and contributing code or frameworks
Hands-on Engineer: Engineer with hands-on contributions on a day-to-day basis to codebases building solutions / products
Key Characteristics
- Leadership without Authority: Leads by influence and technical expertise rather than by managing direct reports.
- Strategic Thinking: Able to see the bigger picture, identify future technical needs, and plan accordingly.
- Deep Technical Expertise: Possesses in-depth knowledge of technical constraints, history, and potential future trends.
- Organizational Impact: Focuses on high-leverage activities that create significant value, save costs, or improve efficiency across the organization.
- Influence: While a Senior Engineer is a highly skilled individual contributor, a Staff Engineer leads and influences a broader group of engineers and projects within their technical domain.
Technical Requirements:
- Programming Languages/ Frameworks - Multiple (Java, Salesfoce Apex, Javascript)
- Products - 8 experiences in Salesforce products and services, with multiple certifications; nCino Product knowledge will be highly regarded
- Cloud - Salesforce Cloud, AWS, Azure or GCP
- DevOps / DevOps - Gitlab / Github; Well versed with CI/ CD Pipelines like Copado
- Other Salesforce related products like - Odaseva
To be successful in the role:
- Proven track record of successful salesforce project or product delivered in the market, need to share examples and Github/Gitlab repositories prior to the interview
- Experience in working in product startups or large corporates in a highly complicated domain like Banking & Finance, Markets, Aerospace or similar
- Team leadership skill with ability to mentor and guide senior and junior engineers
- Strong foundational thinking in data structure & algorithms, object-oriented programming and design principles
- Certifications in Salesforce products is mandatory
- Upon initial screening, candidates will be given a small product to complete and submit (use of AI for boilerplate coding is allowed and not vide-coding to generate the full product/ project repo)
- 2-3 rounds of interviews with technical and non-technical questions and/or challenges to be completed
