Engineering Manager, Salesforce

Vacatia

$125K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Portland, OR
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on development
  • 4+ years of experience managing Salesforce engineering teams
  • Deep Salesforce expertise in Apex, SOQL, Lightning Web Components, and more
  • Strong experience with Salesforce DevOps and CI/CD
  • Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
  • Strong leadership, coaching, and communication skills
  • Ability to balance technical contributions with team development

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of Salesforce engineers and administrators
  • Partner with stakeholders to prioritize work and manage capacity
  • Contribute approximately 25% to normal engineering cycles
  • Translate complex business needs into practical Salesforce solutions
  • Champion engineering best practices like code reviews and documentation
  • Improve platform reliability and reduce technical debt
  • Serve as an escalation point for incidents and promote continuous improvement

Benefits

  • Location flexibility: Portland, OR or remote in the US
  • Opportunity to lead critical technology initiatives
  • Develop and coach a talented engineering team
  • Directly influence business operations and customer experience
  • Engage with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions
Full Job Description
Join Vacatia and Lead the Salesforce Engineering Team Powering Our Business

Location: Portland, OR or Remote • United States

Salesforce is at the center of many of Vacatia's most important operations, including ownership records, customer care, billing, and business reporting. We're looking for an Engineering Manager, Salesforce to lead the team responsible for building, improving, and supporting this critical platform.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll manage and develop a team of Salesforce engineers and administrators while remaining close to the technology and partnering directly with business leaders to deliver meaningful solutions.

Your Impact
  • Lead and develop a team of Salesforce engineers and administrators through coaching, performance management, career development, hiring, and onboarding
  • Partner with the Platform Operations Manager and Salesforce Technical Architect to prioritize work, manage capacity, and deliver predictable outcomes
  • Remain hands-on by contributing to approximately 25% of a normal engineering cycle
  • Partner with business stakeholders to translate complex needs into practical, scalable Salesforce solutions
  • Champion engineering best practices including code review, testing, source-driven development, and documentation
  • Help improve platform reliability, reduce technical debt, and strengthen engineering practices across the team
  • Serve as an escalation point for incidents and support blameless postmortems and continuous improvement
  • Ensure work is appropriately captured, prioritized, and visible across the team


What You Bring
  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on development
  • 4+ years of experience managing Salesforce engineering teams, including developers and/or administrators
  • Deep Salesforce expertise across Apex, SOQL, Lightning Web Components, Flow, security and sharing, governor limits, and the Salesforce data model
  • Strong experience with Salesforce DevOps, including SFDX, Git, source-driven development, CI/CD, sandbox strategy, and automated testing
  • Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Strong leadership, coaching, communication, and organizational skills
  • Ability to balance hands-on technical contribution with people leadership and team development


Nice to Have
  • Experience in hospitality, travel, timeshare, vacation ownership, or reservation-based businesses
  • Experience with Salesforce Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, or Marketing Cloud
  • Familiarity with Linear or similar project management tools
  • Experience introducing AI-assisted development tools into engineering teams


Join Us

Join Vacatia and lead the team responsible for one of the most important technology platforms in our business. As our Engineering Manager, Salesforce, you'll have the opportunity to develop talented engineers, strengthen our Salesforce platform, and build technology solutions that directly impact customers and business operations.

If you're a Salesforce engineering leader who loves developing people, solving complex problems, and creating high-performing teams, we'd love to hear from you.

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