Salesforce Engineer w/JavaScript experience - Menu & Location

Los Angeles, California - Engineering Team

In office 4 Days per week

Reports to: Engineering Manager

The MeLo team

We are a team. Not a group of individuals. We are passionate about solving complex technical problems and take pride in the success of our products. There are no unicorns. Success depends on everyone working together to ship great features backed by maintaining frameworks for ongoing manual and automated testing. We are in this together.

At sweetgreen, we seek a passionate Salesforce Engineer to join the menu and location team(MeLo). In this role, you will help evolve the menu and location domain of 200+ physical locations and over 1000 outposts while supporting 3000+ team members.

We value, encourage, and support diversity in backgrounds and opinions. We are human, fallible, and lifelong learners—we make mistakes from which we learn and grow. We partner with product, design, data, IT, operations, and business stakeholders to long-term own the solutions we build to improve the lives of our customers.

Your Impact

• Self-starter: This role is for a motivated individual looking to own and help drive all parts of the codebase they touch. While the focus is on Salesforce, the scope of this role will extend beyond that system. This is the place to be if you seize problems to resolve and contribute to the teams and organizations you are part of.
• Teamwork: Together, we will automate and streamline how MeLo data is propagated through the organization. Audit tools that ensure data integrity, along with apps and services that support team members internally and in the field, will be the order of the day.

• Adapt: Change is a constant here, and with it comes new challenges. You will not be alone when facing them, but you will be expected to do your part. Fulfilling this role will mean thinking on your feet.

• Your Growth: A clear progression path and regular 1:1’s will guide you along your desired career goals. 

• Mindset: We continue to expand our footprint. Your solutions will contribute to taking the long view of managing not simply the 200 we have today but 500 or more tomorrow. We will develop with the future in mind.

• End-to-End: Review the existing system design and documentation to develop a deep understanding of the order lifecycle, with an eye toward quality and accessibility for all users.
• Log: Within Confluence, contribute to the documentation of various domain products. This will ensure the teams' tools we build are accessible and well-understood.

• Ownership: As issues and work arise, team members look to own the solution. They do not wait for someone else to do something. Things are looked into, tickets are created, and leadership is exercised within an individual's sphere of influence.

Qualifications and Experience

Salesforce specific traits:

1. Salesforce Platform Architecture & Fundamentals:

• Multi-Tenant Architecture & Governor Limits:
•  Understand how Salesforce’s multi-tenant model works and be able to design solutions that respect governor limits (e.g., limits on SOQL queries, DML operations, etc.). This includes knowing strategies for bulk processing and efficient resource utilization.
• Data Model & Security:
•  Deep knowledge of standard and custom objects, relationships (lookup, master-detail), and the implications for data integrity and sharing. They should also be comfortable configuring field-level security, role hierarchies, and sharing rules.

1. Apex Programming:

• Core Language Proficiency:
• Mastery of Apex including writing triggers, classes, and methods. This also involves an understanding of best practices such as bulkification, handling exceptions, and writing efficient, scalable code.
• Asynchronous Processing:
• Experience with Batch Apex, Queueable Apex, and future methods to manage large data volumes or long-running processes.
• Test-Driven Development:
•  Proficiency in writing test classes with the @isTest annotation to ensure high code coverage, along with techniques for creating robust test data and simulating complex business logic.

1. User Interface Development:

• Visualforce & Lightning Components:
• While Visualforce remains important for legacy systems, a strong grasp of Lightning is critical.
• Candidates should know:
• Aura Components: Their lifecycle, event handling, and when to use them.
• Lightning Web Components (LWC): Understanding modern JavaScript frameworks, the component model, and best practices for performance and reusability.

1. Integration Capabilities

• APIs & Web Services:
• Proficiency with both REST and SOAP APIs for integrating with external systems. They should be able to design and secure callouts, handle authentication, and manage remote site settings.
• Integration Patterns:
• Familiarity with common integration patterns (synchronous vs. asynchronous, pub/sub, etc.) and the best practices for error handling and retry mechanisms.

1. Deployment & DevOps

• Metadata Management & Deployment:
• Knowledge of deployment tools and methodologies including Change Sets, Salesforce DX, and CI/CD practices. This includes understanding the Salesforce metadata structure and how to manage version control in a collaborative environment.
• Debugging & Troubleshooting:
• Experience with the Developer Console, debug logs, and monitoring tools to diagnose and resolve performance issues or errors in both code and configuration.

1. Best Practices & Performance Optimization

• Efficient Querying:
• Expertise in writing optimized SOQL queries, using selective filters, and understanding the implications of indexing and query planning.
• Code Quality & Design Patterns:
• Familiarity with design patterns specific to Salesforce (e.g., trigger frameworks, service layers) to promote code reusability, maintainability, and scalability.
• Declarative vs. Programmatic Solutions:
• Knowing when to leverage Salesforce’s declarative tools like Process Builder and Flow, and when a custom Apex solution is more appropriate.

Personal & Programming traits:

• Growth mindset with a hunger to learn new practices while still respecting the old ones that work
• Strong programming fundamentals that carry across languages
• Incredible personal drive coupled with patience when teaching fellow developers
• Solid communication and collaboration abilities
• Disciplined work ethic
• General knowledge of Typescript, JavaScript, and React

Knowing the following topics will be beneficial:

• NestJS
• Expo and react-native
• Monorepos (we use the NX framework)
• Testing (Playwright for e2e, Jest for unit-tests and integration tests, k6 for load testing)
• AWS and Infrastructure as code (terraform, terragrunt, atlantis)
• CI/CD Best Practices
• GraphQL
• Docker
• CircleCI
• General knowledge of the fast-casual restaurant industry and SAAS vendors in the industry (OLO, Brink)

Our Tech Stack

We’re technology agnostic, but we tend to use lean tools that are best suited to the job. Our systems are built using various frameworks, but the most established are React Native, GraphQL, Nest.js, and Typescript. We rely on Datadog for observability. We try not to over-index on the latest tech and instead focus on the tools that allow for the greatest development experience, quality of work, and productivity.

You and Us, Together

• Highly competitive pay + bonus plan
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Flexible PTO plan
• 401k program
• Employee HSA and FSA
• Complimentary greens
• Pet-Friendly Office
• A clear career path with opportunities for personal and professional development
• Free sweetgreen swag
• We are committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone who works for us and applies to join our team.

 Join the Sweetlife!

sweetgreen is on a mission to build healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We passionately believe that real food should be convenient and accessible to everyone. Every day in each sweetgreen restaurant, our 4,000+ team members make food from scratch, using fresh ingredients and produce delivered that morning. And in our local communities, we’re committed to leaving people better than we found them. We’re in the business of feeding people, and we’re out to change what that means. Our people are our most valuable ingredient - the heart of our company, the face of our brand, and what truly makes the sweetgreen experience special and unique.

 #stayMeLo