Salesforce Applications Engineer
Robinhood · Menlo Park, CA
$132,000–$155,000
Jul 7, 2026
Menlo Park, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Salesforce developer role focused on building and maintaining internal platforms that support customer support, marketing, and legal operations. Day-to-day work involves writing Apex, Lightning, and Visualforce code, configuring platform security and automation, handling integrations with other systems, and participating in on-call incident response. Suited to engineers with hands-on Salesforce development experience at enterprise scale.
Mid level · 2+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
Pay in the description: $132,000–$155,000
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
We read this from the posting text with AI. Skim the description below before ruling yourself out.
How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 430 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 130–650
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is titled 'Salesforce Applications Developer' with no seniority level in the title; advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 2–5 year experience range and scope (building within an existing Salesforce environment, translating business requirements) support a Mid-level classification.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily custom application development within Salesforce (15-1252), but the heavy configuration, workflow automation, and business-requirements translation work also has meaningful overlap with Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211).
The Menlo Park, CA office is the stated primary location. The compensation table lists Zone 1 as Menlo Park, CA / New York, NY / Bellevue, WA / Washington, DC; the figures shown ($132,000–$155,000) correspond to Zone 1. Menlo Park falls within the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara CBSA (41940).
AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor) are listed under the 'What you bring' requirements section with firm language ('Experience leveraging…'), making them a hard gate. Claude is listed as the primary named tool; Cursor is captured as an alternative since the JD presents them as interchangeable examples.
The posting notes this position is restricted to US citizens or lawful permanent residents due to legal requirements.
Compensation shown is Zone 1 (Menlo Park, CA). Zones 2 and 3 offer lower ranges ($116K–$136K and $103K–$121K respectively). The role is also eligible for bonus and equity on top of base pay.
Read the full posting
The employer publishes the full description on their own site — read it there ↗. Or sign in to read it here — it's free, and it also lets you track this application.