Software Engineer, Salesforce

Overview

QXO is the fastest growing publicly traded distributor of building products in North America. The company aims to become the tech-enabled leader in the $800 billion building products distribution industry and generate outsized value for its shareholders. QXO targets $50 billion in annual revenues within the next decade through accretive acquisitions and organic growth.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Salesforce who bridges the gap between CRM excellence and modern cloud architecture. The ideal candidate isn’t just a Salesforce expert, but a versatile full-stack developer comfortable operating beyond the confines of the platform. You will play a pivotal role in architecting end-to-end solutions that leverage Google Cloud Platform (GCP) alongside Salesforce, ensuring our ecosystem is scalable, performant, and seamlessly integrated.

We need someone who can navigate a complex Apex trigger one hour and a GCP microservice the next. You should bring a deep understanding of modern engineering patterns—including CI/CD, distributed systems, and cloud-native development—to help us push the boundaries of what Salesforce can do when backed by a robust full-stack infrastructure.

You’ll report directly to the Director of Sales and Marketing Technology and work closely with Salesforce administrators and developers, full stack software engineers, product, design, and sales and marketing teams to turn complex requirements into intuitive, fast, and reliable tools for our revenue teams.

• Technical Delivery: Lead by example as a primary individual contributor, developing complex features that harden our core Salesforce frameworks. Bridge the gap between architecture and implementation, ensuring Apex and Lightning Web Components (LWC) patterns are battle-tested in a high-scale, multi-cloud environment.
• Sales and Marketing Hybrid Technology Architecture: Design and maintain high-performance, bi-directional integrations between Salesforce (and adjacent SaaS tooling) and GCP, utilizing Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, or Dataflow to bypass traditional platform governor limits.
• Full-Stack Strategy: Architect a seamless bridge between the front-end (LWC), the back-end (Apex), and the cloud (GCP). Promote Service Sovereignty and design patterns ensuring Salesforce and GCP interact as a cohesive unit, delivering a high-performance, platform-agnostic user experience.
• Engineering Excellence & Governance: Establish "Shift Left" standards for the Salesforce team, including robust CI/CD pipelines, agentic development, automated testing, and containerized deployment patterns.
• Technical Mentorship: Upskill mid-level Salesforce developers in full-stack best practices and guide generalist engineers on Salesforce-specific architectural constraints.
• Build vs. Buy Decisions: Evaluate when to leverage native Salesforce functionality versus offloading processing to GCP microservices to optimize for cost, performance, and scalability.
• Security & Compliance: Partner with Info Sec to ensure data integrity and encryption standards are maintained as sensitive information moves between Sales, Marketing and adjacent systems.

Required

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 4+ years specifically architecting and developing on the Salesforce platform at scale.
• Mastery of Apex and LWC: Deep expertise in writing modular, asynchronous, and bulk-safe Apex, along with advanced Lightning Web Component development (State Management, Lightning Message Service).
• Distributed Systems & Integration: Experience designing Event-Driven Architectures using Salesforce Platform Events, Change Data Capture (CDC), and message brokers (Pub/Sub, Kafka, or Rabbit
  
  MQ).
• Full-Stack Proficiency: Hands-on experience building applications in at least one backend language outside of Salesforce (e.g., Node.js, Go, Python, or Java).
• API Design: Expert-level understanding of RESTful API design, OAuth 2.0, and managing service boundaries between a CRM and external cloud services.
• Modern Dev Ops/DX: Experience with Salesforce DX (SFDX), version-control-based development (Git), and building automated CI/CD pipelines…