Lead Backend Engineer, Agentforce for Supply Chain

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Software Engineering Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Global supply chains still rely on slow, manual processes—email, spreadsheets, and fragmented data. The economy moves fast but supply chains don’t, creating an inefficiency that affects the $13T of goods shipped annually and is one of the largest untapped opportunities in modern enterprise. Agentforce for Supply Chain is reimagining the supply chain with an AI-powered platform for designing, automating, and running end-to-end business processes, with seamless collaboration through familiar channels like email. For Salesforce, this represents a massive growth opportunity in the back office, with innovations that flow into the front office. Customers are clamoring for more, rapidly expanding their use cases as we enter an exhilarating growth phase. As one user put it: “I’ve been waiting for this for 20 years.” As a Lead Software Engineer, Backend Systems, for the Super Agent, you will be instrumental in executing the vision for the AI-driven workflow engine and data platform. If you love designing and scaling complex backend systems, have shipped major projects or entire products, and can think fluently about distributed systems, data modeling, API design, and integrations, this role is for you. You’ll architect and scale our Go/Postgres/Redis/GraphQL backend, working alongside world-class engineers and product minds to drive high-impact projects, lead critical design discussions, and collaborate directly with customers to shape a platform that’s transforming supply chain, manufacturing, and beyond. This role offers high autonomy, significant technical ownership, and direct impact on the direction of the platform. Responsibilities: Architect and build scalable, extensible, and reliable backend systems for data-intensive software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and help shape the long-term technical roadmap. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Design, Product Management and industry experts to deeply understand customer problems, build high-quality product features and make thoughtful tradeoffs that maximize impact. Lead and mentor engineers, providing guidance and expertise in backend development, database systems and distributed systems, while cultivating broader engineering skills. Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, incorporating new developments into the backend architecture and processes where appropriate. Conduct code reviews, technical discussions and decision-making processes to maintain high standards of code quality and best practices. Drive the adoption of best practices in backend development, data modeling, API design and observability, ensuring scalable, maintainable systems and operational excellence. Champion a culture of innovation, encouraging and leading initiatives to explore new technologies and improve existing systems. Required Qualifications: A related technical degree 5 years of industry experience as a backend software engineer, with a focus on large-scale, user-facing web applications Proven experience architecting and implementing large or complex software as a service (SaaS) systems, with a strong understanding of scalable, extendable ... (truncated, view full listing at source)