Salesforce Engineer

Join the team shaping the future of Australia's game.

This is your chance to do work that has real impact, in an organisation that moves fast, aims high and plays a meaningful role in the lives of millions. Every role at the AFL helps progress the game, so more people can love it, connect with it and see what is possible through it.

The opportunity

As Salesforce Engineer, you will help deliver and evolve the AFL’s flagship CRM platform across the AFL ecosystem, supporting both AFL/Marvel and several clubs using the industry solution. This role plays an important part in building reliable, scalable and high-performing platform services that support great experiences for fans, partners, clubs and communities.

Working closely with internal delivery teams, stakeholders and delivery partners, you will contribute across solution design, development, implementation and production support. You will also help strengthen platform stability, governance and continuous improvement across the Salesforce environment.

What you'll own

You will contribute to the ongoing performance, stability and evolution of the AFL’s Salesforce platform environment. This role combines hands-on engineering capability with strong collaboration and solution delivery focus.

You’ll add value through:

• Delivering ongoing enhancements and custom Salesforce developments that support business priorities across the AFL ecosystem
• Designing scalable and efficient technical solutions aligned to current platform capability, data landscape and long-term objectives
• Developing and maintaining custom applications, Lightning Web Components, Apex classes, triggers and supporting frameworks
• Supporting solution estimation, delivery planning and phased implementation approaches based on dependencies and available resources
• Collaborating with technology teams, stakeholders and delivery partners throughout design, build, testing and release activities
• Building high-quality solutions with strong testing discipline, deployment standards and operational readiness
• Producing clear and maintainable technical documentation, including solution designs and standard operating procedures
• Supporting production environments by investigating and resolving technical and data issues, including root cause analysis
• Contributing to governance, release review and continuous improvement processes across the CRM platform
• Supporting Salesforce platform stability through system release reviews, managed package upgrades and feature rollouts
• Maintaining effective working relationships between technical teams and business stakeholders through clear communication and responsive support

What you’ll bring

• At least 4 years’ experience delivering Salesforce solutions in a Salesforce Developer or similar engineering role
• Strong hands-on experience with Apex development, including classes, triggers and batch processing
• Proven capability developing Lightning Web Components (LWC)
• Experience working with Salesforce Data Cloud, including data ingestion, unification, segmentation and activation
• Knowledge of integration patterns and experience delivering system integrations
• Hands-on experience working with CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices
• Experience with metadata extraction, migration and deployment activities
• Strong understanding of Salesforce development best practice, including coding standards, security and scalable solution design
• Demonstrated experience balancing declarative and custom development approaches, including knowing when configuration is the right solution
• Strong capability across Salesforce declarative tools, including flows, data modelling, security and sharing models, and permission management
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capability, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business teams to deliver quality outcomes

Why you’ll love being on our team

At the AFL, you will be part of a values-led team that aims high, backs each other and brings energy, care and integrity to work that matters. This is a place where people play to win, play as one team and play with passion, while always staying grounded in fairness, inclusion and respect. We work hard, support each other and create the conditions for our people to grow, perform and thrive.

What you can look forward to:

• Play The Day Your Way, our flexible approach to working life, built to support you on game day and every day
• My Development, with coaching, mentoring, on-the-job learning and formal development to help you keep building your game
• Play Well, our health and wellbeing programme designed to support a healthy body, healthy mind and healthy workplace
• My Benefits, giving you access to a range of partner offers and discounts through our AFL Corporate Partners
• AFL Silver Memberships for permanent team members, so you can enjoy the action at Marvel Stadium and the MCG with family and friends
• 6 months paid primary parental leave with no qualification period for permanent team members

Everyone has a place here

Our game brings people together, and we want our workplace to do the same. We are committed to building an environment where people feel respected, included and able to thrive, and where diversity of background, experience and perspective makes us stronger.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply.

The AFL is committed to promoting and protecting the safety and wellbeing of children and young people in our care. Please note, we undertake several screening processes to ensure this commitment is upheld, this includes ensuring the successful candidate to this position holds a valid employee Working with Children/ Vulnerable People check and a satisfactory criminal history record check.

Ready to play your part?

Applications close 2 June 2026