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Software Engineering SMTS
SalesforceSeattle, Washington, USA; Palo Alto, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USAEstimate the salary
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Type
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, Washington, USA; Palo Alto, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA
Experience
Senior (5+ yrs)
Posted
23 days ago
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Quick Take
Salesforce is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (SMTS) with a strong frontend focus for their Experience Library team. This hybrid role involves building high-quality, scalable web experiences using modern technologies like React, TypeScript, and Node.js, and integrating AI tools into development workflows.
Role Overview
🏢 About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. They are a leading cloud-based software company known for its customer relationship management (CRM) services and commitment to innovation, inspiring the future of business with AI + Data + CRM.
🎯 The Role
Join the Experience Library team as a Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS), a senior frontend-focused full-stack engineer. You will be a key technical contributor and domain expert on the Page Builder platform, designing and building high-quality, scalable frontend components, collaborating closely with Product and UX, and elevating the team's engineering practices. This role involves strong ownership of features, contributing to architectural decisions, and mentoring junior engineers, while also shaping the integration of AI tools into daily development workflows.
🛠️ Tech Stack
The team works across the full stack with a strong frontend focus, utilizing modern web technologies including JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, React (preferred), HTML5, CSS3, and Node.js. Experience with CSS frameworks like Sass or Tailwind, Content Management Systems (WordPress, Contentful), and public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) is important. The role also involves RESTful/GraphQL APIs, web performance fundamentals, and frontend testing frameworks (Jest, Cucumber, Selenium). Build tools like Webpack, Vite, npm, or Yarn are also relevant.
💼 What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain high-quality, production-grade frontend and full-stack features for the Page Builder platform.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for domains within the Page Builder platform, including blade components, CMS integration, or rendering pipelines.
- Build and ship modular, reusable, and accessible UI components that power salesforce.com marketing pages.
- Take ownership of features from design through execution, including writing design specs and defining test strategies.
- Actively integrate AI tools (e.g., Agentforce, Slackbot, Cursor, Claude, Codex) into your engineering workflow.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, UX Designers, Principal Engineers, and cross-functional teams.
- Mentor junior team members through pair programming, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing.
- Contribute to code reviews, monitor features in production, and champion engineering best practices.
- Help manage delivery complexity, slice stories, define tasks, and expose dependencies and risks.
- Present designs to internal groups and contribute to internal retrospectives, playbooks, and documentation.
✅ What You'll Need
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on frontend and full-stack web development.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+) and TypeScript, with hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React preferred; Vue, Angular, or Ember also considered).
- Solid experience with HTML5, CSS3, and CSS frameworks such as Sass or Tailwind.
- Experience with Node.js and building backend services that support frontend experiences (BFF pattern a plus).
- Experience working with Content Management Systems, particularly WordPress and/or Contentful.
- Proven experience building scalable, performant web applications on public cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
- Experience consuming RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs, with a solid understanding of API design and security.
- Strong understanding of web performance fundamentals (Core Web Vitals, lazy loading, caching strategies, CDN behavior).
- Experience with frontend testing methodologies and frameworks (Jest, Cucumber, Selenium, or equivalent).
- Demonstrated ability to independently lead and deliver features of medium-to-high complexity.
- Experience mentoring engineers, providing technical coaching and constructive code review feedback.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- A related technical degree is required.
🌟 Nice to Have
- A demonstrated, AI-first approach to engineering, actively using AI tools.
- Experience with internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n).
- Experience working within or contributing to a design system or component library.
- Familiarity with WordPress as a CMS platform, including theme development or Page/REST API consumption.
- Experience with build tools such as Webpack, Vite, npm, or Yarn.
- Experience with CDN configuration (e.g., Akamai) and understanding of how CDNs impact web performance.
- Experience with analytics instrumentation and tag management (e.g., Google Analytics, Adobe, Tealium).
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
- Experience building with accessibility standards (WCAG) in mind.
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Technology, or equivalent experience.
Why This Role?
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