Senior Salesforce Engineer

Morningstar•Chicago, IL

3d•$117,500 - $172,350•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Salesforce Software Engineer designs, develops, and supports scalable Salesforce solutions for Sales, Finance, Marketing, and Service business processes. The role works with product management, business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to turn requirements into secure, maintainable solutions; leads complex development and integration work; supports release quality and operational stability; and mentors junior developers. The engineer owns programmatic requests, collaborates on specifications, and chooses between declarative tools and custom Apex based on business requirements. The role also develops and maintains external-system integrations, supports a legacy CRM application based on SQL Server, and creates and executes unit and integration tests with code coverage above 75%. It includes code review, quality assurance and user acceptance testing support, and Salesforce package release management, version control, and deployment issue prevention. The position also designs, builds, and supports Salesforce Agentforce capabilities, including agents, actions, prompts, guardrails, and integrations, to deliver secure, scalable, and measurable AI-enabled business outcomes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 5 years of relevant engineering experience in a Software Engineer or similar position; alternatively, a master’s degree in one of these fields and 3 years of relevant engineering experience.
3 years of Salesforce development experience, including the ability to develop from scratch and perform administration.
Experience with Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud.
Experience with Lightning components and Apex classes.
Experience with SQL Server 2008/2012 and ASP/ASP.NET.
Experience with Salesforce design, configuration, and custom development using Apex classes, triggers, Visualforce pages, data migration tools, SOQL, and SOSL.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Salesforce Agentforce, Einstein, generative AI patterns, prompt design, agent actions, data grounding, security controls, and responsible AI governance.
Knowledge of Informatica and enterprise integration concepts, including APIs, middleware, ETL and data pipelines, event-driven patterns, identity and access controls, error handling, monitoring, and integrations between Salesforce and platforms such as Oracle, Snowflake, and other external systems.

Responsibilities

Partner with Sales, Finance, and Marketing business stakeholders to understand requirements and provide timely Salesforce solutions.
Own programmatic requests and collaborate on specifications based on stakeholder requirements.
Mentor junior-level developers and review their code.
Work with product management and internal customers to transform business requirements into scalable solutions on the Force.com platform.
Develop, enhance, and maintain Salesforce integrations with external systems.
Design, build, and support Salesforce Agentforce capabilities, including agents, actions, prompts, guardrails, and integrations.
Analyze requirements and select appropriate point-and-click tools or custom Apex code.
Develop high-quality, reusable, maintainable code while respecting Salesforce governor and API limits.
Support the legacy CRM application based on SQL Server.
Create and execute unit and integration tests, ensuring test-code coverage above 75%.
Assist with internal quality assurance testing and guide user acceptance testing.
Manage releases, including preparing and deploying Salesforce packages and maintaining version control.
Proactively identify potential deployment issues.

Benefits

100% 401(k) match up to 6% of salary.
Stock ownership potential.
Company-provided life insurance equal to 1x salary plus commission.
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions of up to $500–$2,000 annually for specific plans and coverages.
Additional medical wellness incentives of up to $300–$600 annually.
Company-provided long- and short-term disability insurance.
Trust-Based Time Off.
Six-week paid sabbatical program.
Six-week paid family caregiving leave.
Paid parental leave of 8–24 weeks.
Adoption assistance.
Leadership coaching and formal mentorship opportunities.
Annual $1,000 flex stipend for personal education and well-being expenses.
Tuition reimbursement.
Charitable matching gifts program.
Dollars for Doers volunteer program.
Paid volunteering days.
15+ employee resource and affinity groups.