Front End Lead Engineer

Salesforce is seeking a Front End Lead Engineer to join their Heroku team, where you'll leverage your extensive JavaScript, HTML, and CSS expertise to enhance the Heroku user experience. This role is part of a diverse and distributed team that values collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

As a Front End Lead Engineer, you'll work closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to conceptualize, build, test, and deploy new features for Heroku's large user base. The position requires strong technical skills in modern web technologies, including TypeScript, Ruby, and contemporary front-end frameworks. You'll be responsible for mentoring other engineers, reviewing code, and participating in on-call rotations.

The Heroku Front End Engineering team comprises software engineers from diverse backgrounds with various areas of expertise, united by their passion for software development that emphasizes aesthetics, design, and cross-functional teamwork. The team's vision focuses on delivering high-quality, accessible, and performant platform management experiences using modern web development frameworks.

The role offers the opportunity to work in a positive, diverse, and supportive culture that values curiosity, inventiveness, and continuous improvement. As part of a distributed team, you'll need to excel at asynchronous communication while maintaining intentional collaboration. The position combines technical leadership with hands-on development, requiring both strategic thinking and practical implementation skills.

Key responsibilities include brainstorming with stakeholders, exploring new web technologies, supporting production systems, mentoring team members, and evolving front-end applications. The ideal candidate will bring 6+ years of experience with large-scale web applications, strong technical expertise, and a proven track record of project ownership and technical communication.

This role offers competitive compensation ranging from $167,300 to $253,000, depending on location, and provides the flexibility of remote work. Join Salesforce's Heroku team to help shape the future of cloud platform experiences while working with cutting-edge web technologies in a collaborative, growth-oriented environment.