Senior Software Engineering Manager

Role Description

Sunstrong is searching for a hands-on Software Engineering Manager who will lead a group of software engineers to develop SunStrong’s rapidly scaling Salesforce platform. You will be responsible for driving the technical direction for the end-to-end platform, including ongoing expansion and enhancements to support rapid growth, managing architecture and design decisions, ensuring successful delivery of high-quality work, and fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the engineering lead for the cross-functional teams supporting SunStrong’s Salesforce platform, which is comprised of engineering, QA, and product.
• Leads a team of Salesforce software engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to facilitate their professional growth and development.
• Responsible for building and maintaining a high-performing team, including coaching team members, creating development plans, and recruiting.
• Oversees architectural and design decisions across the Salesforce platform in partnership with teams and architects.
• Provides code reviews and mentorship to improve overall application health and team skills.
• Provides architectural planning and insights for application development.
• Facilitates Agile sprint ceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Identifies, implements, and promotes opportunities to improve team delivery through the use of AI tooling and methodologies.
• Champions best practices, coding standards, and software development methodologies to maintain a high-quality codebase.
• Manages and allocates resources effectively to meet project deadlines and organizational objectives.
• Promotes a positive and inclusive team culture that encourages creativity, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8+ years of software development experience, with 3+ years experience in a leadership role.
• Deep hands-on experience as an engineering leader across the enterprise-scale Salesforce ecosystem, including integrating with internal and external custom and third-party applications.
• Experience effectively leveraging AI tooling to improve app quality and delivery, particularly the AgentForce suite of tooling.
• Deep experience with Apex, LWC, SOQL, Flows, and Salesforce metadata model.
• Strong command of governor limits, bulkification, security model, and performance tuning.
• Proven experience with integration design (REST/SOAP, async processing, error handling, retry patterns).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Gearset and/or other enterprise-scale CI/CD tooling.
• Experience in large org refactoring, managed package coexistence, and multi-team governance models.
• Experience with high-volume service operations, partner ecosystem workflows, or regulated data environments.

Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to triage and manage production incidents, with an emphasis on clear communication with business partners.
• Ability to translate requirements into technical specifications for feature development.
• Experience facilitating one-on-ones with team members.
• Salesforce certifications such as Platform Developer II, JavaScript Developer I, Integration Architect, or Data Cloud credentials.

Working Conditions

• Some overtime outside normal working hours is expected to support software releases and issue management.

Physical Requirements

• Extended period of time working at a computer workstation.

Benefits

• SunStrong Management offers a rich and affordable benefits package through UnitedHealthcare and MetLife within the US intercontinental states.
• Benefits include HDHP and PPO Medical Plans, buy-up plans for both Dental and Vision, ancillaries such as Accident, Critical illness, Hospital indemnity, Short term and Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Life, and legal services along with multiple add-ons.
• Our 401(k) Package includes an Employer Match of 100% up to the first 4% and 50% on the next 2% with immediate vesting.