Director of Software Engineering (Salesforce)

Los Angeles, CA

Description of Primary Duties:

  • Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with our cross functional team of architects, product owners and engineers

  • Make critical decisions that attribute to the success of the product and vocally advocating for technical excellence guiding the team to good decisions

  • Proactive in foreseeing issues and resolve it before it happens

  • Management of standups as the ScrumMaster for no more than two engineering teams

  • Ensuring teams have clear priorities and adequate resources

  • Empowering the delivery team to self organize

  • Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members success

  • Providing technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members

  • Maintaining high morale and motivating the delivery team to go above and beyond

  • Participating in architecture discussions and planning

  • Maintaining and fostering our culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals with an eye towards diversity

  • Contribute to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical acumen sharp

Requirements:

  • 3+ years of Salesforce development leadership

  • Masters / Bachelors degree required in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Equivalent Experience

  • 4+ years experience leading software development projects with a distinguished track record on technically demanding projects

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time management skills

  • Ability to be nimble, proactive, comfortable working with minimal specifications

  • Experience with short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and experience working on a product that s been released for public consumption

  • Experience in hiring smart, talented engineers

  • Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build processes, testing, and operations

  • Experience with Agile development methodologies. ScrumMaster experience required

  • Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and project management to understand requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs

Nice To Have Skills:

  • Supply chain and logistics background is very useful

  • Experience with Performance Engineering

  • Building Machine Learning / prediction and AI platforms

To apply, please email your résumé to careers@nucleustech.com.