The IT SaaS Engineering Team plays a critical role in optimizing MongoDB sales processes, streamlining customer interactions, and maximizing the efficiency of our sales efforts. By leveraging Salesforce, the team ensures that business users have the tools, automation, security, and governance needed to effectively manage customer relationships, support operational processes, and drive business growth.
With deep expertise in Salesforce development, platform governance, automation, and system operations, the team continuously enhances the CRM platform to meet evolving business needs. The team partners closely with stakeholders across Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, Security, Compliance, and Engineering to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable Salesforce solutions.
We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurgaon for our hybrid working model.
Role Overview
We are looking for a highly experienced Lead Salesforce Engineer to drive the architecture, design, and evolution of critical Salesforce and CRM solutions across our business systems landscape. This role combines deep technical leadership, hands-on solution design, cross-functional stakeholder partnership, people management, and a modern engineering mindset that embraces AI-powered development responsibly to improve productivity, quality, and long-term platform health.
What you’ll do
- Lead the architecture, design, and development of scalable Salesforce solutions, including custom applications, automations, and integrations
- Translate business requirements into secure, maintainable, and scalable technical solutions aligned with long-term platform strategy
- Partner closely with business stakeholders, product teams, and engineering teams to refine requirements and deliver high-quality solutions
- Oversee integrations between Salesforce and other enterprise platforms, ensuring reliable data flow and sound system design
- Drive platform optimization across performance, scalability, usability, maintainability, and governance
- Establish and enforce engineering standards for coding, testing, documentation, CI/CD, and release management
- Troubleshoot complex technical and production issues and drive long-term, scalable resolutions
- Maintain technical documentation, including architecture decisions, design specifications, and implementation details
- Stay current with Salesforce platform capabilities, releases, and best practices, and proactively recommend improvements
- Proactively identify process and technical gaps, and help define and drive tech debt reduction initiatives, platform modernization efforts, and engineering efficiency improvements across the Salesforce ecosystem
- Leverage AI-powered engineering tools such as Apex Guru, GitHub Copilot, Salesforce Agentforce/Vibes, Claude Code, and similar capabilities to improve development productivity, code quality, design effectiveness, troubleshooting, and documentation, while applying strong judgment around security, privacy, accuracy, and responsible AI usage
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, and engineering best practices
- Act as a subject matter expert on Salesforce development, platform capabilities, automation, integrations, and scalable CRM solution design
- Lead technical design sessions and identify gaps between current-state and future-state solutions
- Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and engineering practices, and drive proof-of-concepts where appropriate
- Mentor engineers across the team and foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous learning, and engineering excellence
- Support team growth by coaching, developing talent, and helping build a high-performing engineering organization
- Influence business and technical stakeholders through strong communication, sound judgment, and effective problem-solving
- Operate effectively in a fast-changing environment by managing priorities, driving accountability, and ensuring high-quality execution
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- 12+ years of experience in Salesforce engineering, application development, or technical leadership within global SaaS organizations
- Strong hands-on experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, integrations, and Salesforce platform customization
- Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture, governor limits, design patterns, and scalable solution design
- 5+ years of experience working with Salesforce CPQ and strong understanding of Quote-to-Cash / Order-to-Cash processes
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and Agile/Scrum delivery models
- Salesforce Platform Developer II (PD2) and Salesforce CPQ Specialist certifications required; Salesforce Certified Application Architect and Salesforce Certified System Architect certifications strongly preferred
Success Measures
- In 3 months, you will: Develop a strong understanding of MongoDB’s Salesforce ecosystem, business processes, and technical landscape. Build trusted relationships with key stakeholders and engineering partners
- In 6 months, you will: Lead the technical design and successful delivery of critical Salesforce initiatives. Establish yourself as a trusted technical leader within the Sales Apps team
- In 12 months, you will: Be the go-to technical leader for Salesforce architecture, complex solution design, and platform strategy. Elevate team quality through strong technical leadership, mentoring, and scalable engineering practices
About MongoDB
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
With offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.
Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!
MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.
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