Salesforce

Lead Software Engineer, ES & Finance Platform

Salesforce$172K — $260K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical lead position.
  • Proven track record in building SaaS-to-SaaS integrations and middleware/APIs.
  • Experience managing high-stakes HR or Finance data with a focus on SOX compliance.
  • Ability to create reusable and well-documented integration platforms.
  • Strong communication skills for influencing cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Architect integration solutions between Workday and the overall Salesforce ecosystem.
  • Design scalable, secure data pipelines that ensure PII and SOX compliance.
  • Translate HR and Finance strategies into efficient integration platforms.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to set data integrity standards and ensure accurate integration.
  • Mentor engineers and lead architectural reviews to enhance technical standards.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Flexible work schedule supporting work-life balance.
  • Access to career development resources and training programs.
  • Inclusive culture with diverse employee resource groups.
Full Job Description

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

Join Salesforce's brand-new IT Employee Success and Finance Platform and Innovations team — a greenfield engineering org built from the ground up since early 2026 to define the data foundation powering HR and Finance at global scale. Based in San Francisco, CA; Indianapolis, IN; Denver, CO; New York, NY; or Atlanta, GA, you will serve as the technical authority for our Workday integration ecosystem, architecting the pipelines that make employee and financial data available, accurate, and ready for agentic use cases across Salesforce.

What You'll Actually Be Doing
  • Architect and govern the integration landscape between Workday and Salesforce's broader enterprise ecosystem — designing scalable, secure, high-throughput pipelines that treat PII and SOX-regulated data with zero tolerance for error.
  • Translate complex HR and Finance business strategies into reusable, well-documented integration platforms that make the entire engineering organization more efficient and capable of supporting agentic workloads.
  • Partner with HR and Finance business stakeholders to define data integrity standards, validate integration accuracy, and drive adoption of engineering excellence practices including modern CI/CD for SaaS and robust testing automation.
  • Mentor lead and staff engineers, lead architectural review processes, and establish guardrails that raise the technical bar across the team as the platform scales.

You're Our Person If…
  • You have 10 or more years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a technical lead or staff capacity, with a strong track record of building SaaS-to-SaaS integrations and custom middleware/APIs bridging legacy and modern enterprise systems.
  • You have deep experience handling high-stakes financial or HR data — you understand that a 1% data mismatch in Finance or HR is a 100% failure, and you architect accordingly with SOX compliance and auditability at the center.
  • You think in platforms, not features — your work emphasizes reusability, documentation, and consistent engineering patterns that downstream consumers can trust.
  • You are a skilled communicator who can partner with non-technical business stakeholders, influence engineering direction without direct authority, and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
  • A related technical degree required.

Even Better If…
  • You have direct hands-on experience with Workday (Extend, Orchestration, Integration Studio, or similar tools).
  • You have worked in a FinTech or highly regulated industry where audit trails and compliance are non-negotiable.
  • You are familiar with the Salesforce ecosystem — including MuleSoft, Data Cloud, or Slack — and understand how to connect Workday data into these platforms.
  • You have experience standing up new platform teams or programs from scratch, including defining standards and onboarding engineering contributors.

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