Staff Salesforce Engineer

About the role

Ibotta is looking for a Staff Salesforce Engineer to join our innovative team and contribute to our mission to Make Every Purchase Rewarding. You will be the senior technical leader for our Salesforce platform.

Responsibilities

• Setting the technical direction and architecture for the Salesforce platform
• Owning the integration architecture between Salesforce and Ibotta's broader services
• Defining the development, deployment, and code review practices the teams work to, and documenting them so they hold up across full time engineers and contractors
• Owning the testing, reliability, and performance of the platform
• Partnering with product, engineering, architecture, and revenue stakeholders, and translating technical risk and cost into terms they can act on
• Simplifying complex inherited systems rather than adding to them
• Mentoring Salesforce engineers and raising the technical bar across the group
• Embracing and upholding Ibotta's Core Values: Integrity, Boldness, Ownership, Teamwork, Transparency

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Salesforce engineering experience, including demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Deep Apex and Lightning Web Components experience, with a solid grasp of Lightning architecture and the Salesforce data model
• Hands on experience building applications in at least one backend language outside of Salesforce, such as Java, Python, Go, or Node.js
• Experience with event driven architecture and integrations over REST and SOAP APIs, including Salesforce Platform Events and Change Data Capture
• Experience with Salesforce release and deployment practices and version control based development, using tooling such as Copado, Salesforce DX, and Git
• Experience with CPQ

What We Are Looking For

• Clear written communication, you document architecture and decisions so others can act on them

Nice to have

• A track record of simplifying complex inherited systems rather than adding complexity
• Experience integrating Salesforce with systems that hold their own business logic and serve as the source of truth
• Experience setting engineering standards across teams that include contractors or staff augmentation
• Familiarity with AI assisted development and judgment about where it adds value