We’re seeking a Staff Salesforce Developer (Salesforce Technical Architect) for the Consignor side of our business.  On Consignor, your work will improve product intake funnels, user account pages related to their sales, customer payment processes, and integrate with tools used by business units such as Sales, Marketing and Business Intelligence. As a Staff Engineer you will be the point person for team and project technical direction, a strong partner to the Engineering Manager, and an active hands-on contributor. The team will rely on you as a mentor and a shepherd of good engineering practices.

What You Get To Do Every Day

• Leverage the Salesforce platform and/or other technologies and programming languages to develop solutions and satisfy unique business requirements
• Provide technical direction and mentorship for your team of fellow engineers
• Partner with engineering and product management to review stories and ensure optimal resource allocation
• Coordinate cross-team engineering efforts and determining technical requirements
• Review pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Produce high quality, performant, testable code
• Contribute to the team’s consistent, measurable velocity
• Deploy to production frequently
• Help define technical strategy and architecture

What You Bring To The Role

• Salesforce Technical Architect Certification
• 10+ years overall experience as an Technical Architect implementing solutions by mapping business processes to Salesforce.com features like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud and as a hands on contributor developing custom solutions on the Salesforce platform using Apex Classes, Apex Triggers, Visualforce Pages, and Lightning Components
• 2+ years leading a high-performance engineering team, in a fast paced environment
• Strong understanding of web technologies: HTML5, Javascript, CSS/SASS, REST, JSON
• Strong understanding of web-app performance fundamentals and related dev tools 
• Strong database fundamentals and experience with MySql or PostgreSQL
• Experience with Event Driven Architecture design paradigm, Salesforce Streaming API, Salesforce Platform Events, Change Data Capture, and Kafka messaging
• Experience working with Salesforce APIs and Web Services (REST, SOAP)
• Experience developing Lightning Components / Lightning Web Components
• Experience with deployment automation using Github, SFDX, and CI/CD best practices 
• Experience with git and Github workflows
• Experience with Microservices architecture
• Bachelor of Computer Science degree or equivalent, Masters degree preferred

The RealReal is the world’s largest online marketplace for authenticated, consigned luxury goods. With a rigorous authentication process overseen by experts, The RealReal provides a safe and reliable platform for consumers to buy and sell their luxury items. We have 150+ in-house gemologists, horologists and brand authenticators who inspect thousands of items each day. As a sustainable company, we give new life to pieces by hundreds of brands, from Gucci to Cartier, supporting the circular economy. We make consigning effortless with free in-home pickup, drop-off service and direct shipping for individual consignors and estates. At our stores in LA, NYC and San Francisco, customers can shop, consign, and meet with our experts. At our 10 Luxury Consignment Offices, four of which are in our retail stores, our expert staff provides free valuations. Founded in 2011 and listed publicly in 2019 (Nasdaq: REAL), we’re growing fast and fundamentally changing the way people buy and sell luxury — a multi-billion dollar industry. Build your career with us and enjoy 401K matching, health, dental and vision insurance, commuter flex spending, healthcare flex spending, generous PTO, a mother’s room, and flexible work hours!

The RealReal is committed to providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or Veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants for a position regardless of arrest or conviction records, consistent with legal requirements. 

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