Salesforce Developer

As a Salesforce Developer you will be part of our agile development team focused on delivering high-quality software applications to meet the needs of our product. Our primary product is a managed package containing multiple custom-built, Salesforce objects and pages. We have also built a large structured Javascript Progressive Web App that syncs data with Salesforce via the Salesforce Restful APIs. 

You will work under direction of product management and be involved in various parts of the SDLC. As part of team we like to get consensus around major technical decisions, you will be able to help shape the technologies we use. We have a QA function and dedicated Customer Success team, but as a Dev team we expect our developers to also get involved in Customer QA defects and troubleshooting when needed.

Duties & Responsibilities :

- Build features within Salesforce, including triggers, custom objects, workflows, templates, and other Salesforce features to meet user needs

- Write code utilizing Apex, Visualforce, JavaScript and Lightning Components

- Understand Salesforce search languages (SOQL, SOSL) and be able to construct complex queries

- Configuration of Salesforce user roles, security, permissions, profiles, workflow rules, triggers, batch jobs, field sets, record types, and more

- Utilize Git repositories and branching strategies to track changes to our packages

- Work with product manager and other software engineers to develop the Company products and managed software package

- Responsible for creation packages and tracking of package versions

- Knowledge and experience developing in Lightning and utilizing Lightning UI components

- Provide engineering support for customer issues and general problem solving

- Design and write unit and integration tests

- Take ownership of assigned tasks, deliver quality code, and tracking time spent

- Help to make process improvements as part of our scrum retrospectives

- Help Identify and evaluate new technologies, innovations, or partner relationships for alignment with technology roadmap and business value

- Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing

- Familiarity with Restful APIs and integration of third-party tools with Salesforce

What we will need from you : The successful candidate should exhibit a reasonable subset of the following skills and abilities :

- Experience with Salesforce.com Platform with a minimum of Salesforce Platform Developer I certification, or equivalent experience

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent

- Required understanding of Salesforce org architecture, configuration, and packaging

- Experience building Lightning Components

- Knowledge of Salesforce DX and 2GP

- Preferred knowledge of Javascript front-end libraries such as React JS, and how those can be integrated within Salesforce

- Experience in overall architecture of software applications that consume RESTful APIs

- Working knowledge of Agile Scrum methodology - knowledge of and acting as part of a scrum team

- Business Acumen - Fundamental knowledge of terminology and key data relationships

- Experience with contemporary SDLC tools similar to our adopted choices of LiquidPlanner, Github, Travis CI, Zendesk, Jira, etc.

- Excellent Communicator - Able to facilitate meetings and present findings clearly, articulating with stakeholders to obtain buy-in

- Strong written and verbal communications skills in English

- Zeal to pursue perfection from yourself, your customer(s), your team and your product

- Energetic with a good, positive attitude

- Quick learner and excellent team player