Sr. Salesforce Developer

Senior Salesforce Engineer

Our client is a highly successful entrepreneurial company providing equipment financing to businesses across the United States. Our exemplary customer service, principle-centered business philosophy, and team-based operating approach are crucial to our success and growth.

As a Senior Salesforce engineer you will be relied on to leverage your knowledge of Salesforce ecosystem, to design and implement complex solutions by using out of box configuration, declarative programming, managed packages and custom development on the platform that creates the greatest value for our customers.

As a Senior Software Engineer - Salesforce, you will:

• Design, develop, test, document and implement solutions and reusable assets across various Salesforce Clouds including but not limited to sales, service and experience through declarative programming and Custom programming using Apex, LWC's to meet the solution design, and be aligned with Salesforce best practices and GreatAmerica's architectural standards
• Effectively practices test-driven development creating and implementing effective unit tests and code coverage for all solutions
• Implement sound logging and other diagnostic tools into each solution deployed
• Implement the right level of monitoring and alerting business processes supported by the solutions developed
• Experience working with managed packages install, upgrade, configure and delete
• Work effectively with our CI/CD tools such as Copado to quickly and efficiently promote changes through higher orgs including production
• Working on Source Control Management, participating in Pull Request Reviews and resolving merger conflicts as well as helping other team members when need arises
• Refactoring and optimizing solutions to increase value and productivity of the team
• Troubleshooting applications and data issues and implementing bug fixes
• Optimize and extend features in the existing Salesforce environments
• Experience working with managed packages and how they interact with Salesforce ecosystem governing limits
• Work on inbound and outbound integrations in to and out from salesforce platforms to other systems using various salesforce integration patterns
• Should be able to be part of salesforce data discussions and help Non salesforce teams with salesforce data model and data concerns
• Expert in working with standard and custom objects and configuration and other Salesforce out-of-the-box configurations, toolsets, and declarative programming
• Understand and suggest external teams about salesforce API's and provide OAS as required for callouts into salesforce
• Experience with Salesforce event architecture and maintain the existing codebase of the Applications
• Implement security and access provisioning using salesforce sharing and access mechanisms
• Ability to work and connect with multiple teams on Agile train to understand the cross-team dependencies
• Extending support to functional and nonfunctional testing teams to deliver on the implemented product
• Extend support to other developers on the team for any issues and hurdles to maintain solid output from the team
• Ensure architectural integrity and consistency across the applications in their product area
• Candidates can be relied upon to manage key relationships with internal & external resources, clients, and third parties
• Willing and be able to travel to conferences, training and other skill development opportunities
• Participates in research and prototyping of new features available in Salesforce
• Adhere to and support GreatAmerica's Salesforce Governance and standards; helping improve and grow our Salesforce best practices
• Continually push to gain more knowledge of the technical products that affect the capabilities of their area
• Continually push to always increase their knowledge and proficiency of the Salesforce platform and the craft of Salesforce solution development
• Serve in a solutions-oriented consultant role that promotes change and process improvement
• Working closely with the Solution Review and Architecture Review Boards
• Regular collaboration and daily communication with the Product Owner and all members of your Product team
• Understand and engage in the broader context of the business "why" and needs behind the code
• Actively participate in design/architectural discussions, grooming user stories, sprint demos, and daily standups of corresponding product teams

Contribute ideas on best practices and process improvements to the software engineering team in GreatAmerica.

Determine coding best practices and process improvements

Performs code reviews of other developers' code

Enforce coding standards and best practices to ensure only quality code is promoted to higher environments.

Train, coach, and mentor other Software Engineers and interns

Lives the GreatAmerica principles; Participate as an active member of an agile product team helping define effective stories, implement, and test to meet sprint goals and Agile Release Train objective

Extended hours may be required to meet deadlines

Perform additional duties as required

To be successful in this role you'll need:

• Candidates must possess the exceptional interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with internal & external resources, clients, and third parties
• Strong negotiation and collaboration skills and ability to develop and manage stakeholder expectations
• Exceptional communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Create inclusive team environments that foster trust and a sense of empowerment
• Effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment and excels at communicating shifts in prioritization
• Adapt to shifting business priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Must be able to multi-task and have a combination of organizational and analytical skills
• Strong push to always gain a combination of business and technical knowledge of the product in their area
• Must be systems-oriented, enjoy working with new tools and be a self-motivated learner
• Entrepreneurial attitude, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment
• Demonstrated self-starter who is goal-oriented, a critical thinker, and a creative problem solver
• Strong sense of urgency and follow-through in addressing issues and meeting timelines

Education

• Bachelor's degree required in Information Systems or equivalent. Salesforce certified Admin, Advanced Admin, Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I and II are required

Experience

• 5-8 years' developer and admin experience working in Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Experience Cloud
• Advanced knowledge of developing and supporting Lightning web Components and the Aura framework
• In depth knowledge of HTML and CSS
• In depth knowledge of JavaScript
• Advanced level of knowledge of APEX Language, SOQL,SOSL
• Advanced level of knowledge of APEX triggers , batch classes and scheduled classes
• Intermediate level of knowledge of VisualForce pages and components
• Advanced level of knowledge of record sharing
• Advanced level of knowledge of dynamic forms
• Advanced level of knowledge of Salesforce user security and access including but not limited to Profiles, Permission Set Groups, Roles and Role Hierarchies, Sharing Rules, user management, permission sets and permission set groups
• Intermediate level of knowledge of formulas and validation rules
• Advanced level of knowledge of data modeling
• Advanced level of knowledge of flows including screen and record triggers auto launch flows
• Advanced level of knowledge of secure programming within the Salesforce Platform to avoid any security pitfalls.
• Advanced level of knowledge of Developer Console, Query Optimizer, Data loader, CLI and Debug Logs
• Advanced level of knowledge and implementation experience on Integration patterns and salesforce API's.
• Advanced knowledge of REST/SOAP API concepts and experience utilizing rest-based services from external parties and implementing rest-based services in Salesforce
• Advanced knowledge of working with Git and source control management processes like pull request reviews, branch management and merge conflict resolution
• Intermediate level of knowledge of working with Salesforce in as CI/CD environment using a tool like Copado
• In-depth experience of working in a Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology is required
• Experience with the SAFe, agile framework is a plus
• Advanced level of experience in troubleshooting and isolating root causes in Salesforce applications
• Ability to read, use and produce system design artifacts such as flowcharts