Description

MissionForce - Public Sector Solutions

***Must be a U.S. citizen (U.S. born or naturalized) living on U.S. soil who does not hold dual citizenship with the ability to meet customer and government screening standards applicable to this role.
PLEASE NOTE: Qualification for this job is contingent upon acceptable results from a background investigation as well as your having and maintaining the specific level of U.S. government background investigation and clearance required for this role.

MissionForce is seeking a talented Senior Member of Technical Staff to join our development team. In this role, you will develop innovative solutions on Salesforce Government Cloud for Federal agencies, the Department of Defense, and government contractors.

Qualified candidates will have deep expertise in Java and modern backend development. The ideal candidates will have solid engineering fundamentals, a strong sense of ownership and the ability to design and build scalable, reliable systems. You will ensure applications meet government security and compliance standards. This is a hands-on development position where you'll contribute to mission-critical applications that serve millions of citizens.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and components using Java and related frameworks.

• Build scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems.

• Participate in architecture and design discussions; influence technical direction.

• Own features end-to-end—from design and implementation to testing, deployment, and ongoing support.

• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and uphold high engineering standards.

• Troubleshoot complex issues across services, databases, and infrastructure layers.

• Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, and cross-functional teams.

• Continuously improve development processes, tooling, and system observability.

• Stay current with emerging technologies and bring forward relevant ideas

• Build complex integrations between Salesforce and government systems using REST/SOAP APIs

• Develop solutions that work in air-gapped and offline environments

• Optimize applications for performance within governor limits

• Create reusable components and frameworks for government use cases

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development team members

• Lead code reviews and establish coding standards

• Provides oversight through code and design reviews for features delivered by other developers within their scrum team.

• Collaborate with architects on technical design decisions

• Drive adoption of best practices for Salesforce development

• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and sprint planning

• Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing

• Develop test plans and test automation for features and/or products

• Verify quality of the code delivered through manual and automated testing. Extend the automation framework where necessary.

• Work closely with senior developers, PM, and UX to ensure their features are delivered to meet business and quality requirements

• Actively influence management regarding tools, technology and testing requirements.

• Troubleshoot production issues.

Platform Expertise

• Work with OmniStudio for dynamic forms and business process automation

• Implement security controls for government compliance requirements

• Develop solutions using Platform Events and asynchronous processing

• Build Experience Cloud sites for constituent-facing applications

• Integrate with Salesforce Data Cloud and AI capabilities

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of software development experience and strong proficiency in Java, including experience with Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, or similar frameworks.

• Understanding of Object-Oriented Design, Data Structures, Algorithms, and design patterns.

• Expeirence building RESTful APIs, microservices, or distributed backend systems.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

• Experience with Agile development methodologies

• Must be a US Citizen

• Must be eligible to obtain Secret clearance

• Clean background suitable for positions of public trust

Note: Active clearance is not required to apply

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Government Cloud or Public Sector Solutions

• Knowledge of government compliance requirements

• Understanding of Salesforce security best practices

• Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems

• Exposure to cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).

• Experience building highly available, fault-tolerant services.

MissionForce delivers secure, compliant applications on Salesforce Government Cloud. We help government agencies modernize their operations and better serve constituents through innovative technology solutions.

For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.