Senior Salesforce Engineer (#1039)

As a Senior SalesForce Engineer this role is involved in the full systems life cycle and responsible for designing, coding, configuring, testing, implementing and supporting application software and systems that are delivered on time and within budget. They work closely with Architects to define the physical design, and with Analysts and Product Managers to understand the business requirements that drive the analysis and physical design of technical solutions. Sr Software Engineers may be assigned to either development or support functions.

Our client is Fortune 500 company. As a leading business-to-business organization, more than 3.2 million customers rely on its products in categories such as safety, material handling and metalworking, along with services like inventory management and technical support.

Responsibilities:

• Develops, builds, and supports highly complex systems and/or applications that may have system-wide impact, integrates across the organization, and involves multiple technical environments and disciplines including SalesForce Administrator, Building Lightning Components, Apex, Visual Force, HTML/CSS/JavaScript and SQL
• Participates in and/or drives the system configuration which meets security, architecture, and support requirements, all while satisfying business needs
• Participates and/or coordinates required testing/validation of system enhancements and fixes, creating and/or executing the test cases including problem determination and resolution
• Leads cross team code merge and deployment activities through collaboration and working closely with all Sales Force Sprint Teams
• Support existing solutions including upgrades, maintenance and issue resolution including emergency or crisis situations to define/implement workaround processes, corrective action, communication, and system clean-up activities
• Develop estimates and participate in the grooming and prioritization of sprint stories
• Coordinates and works on multiple cross-functional initiatives/systems/ applications and projects as a team leader or internal advisor through all design, development and QA processes
• Support documentation, Test Driven Development and reusable code methodologies
• Facilitate collaboration across teams to provide the best overall technical solution to meet requirements
• Actively contribute to continuous improvement and knowledge sharing opportunities driving improvement across the team

Requirements:

• 4+ years of implementation experience, including development, across the full software development lifecycle
• Has experience with object-oriented languages such as Java, JavaScript, C#, Ruby, and .NET
• Ability to produce detailed, comprehensive software documentation, such as requirements specs, design docs, and change logs. (incorporate technical requirements for user stories)
• Able to present complex technical information to a non-technical audience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Experience with Salesforce Development and Administration
• Understands the principles and best practices of Salesforce data modeling, interface design, code development, and testing, and can apply these principles in real-world development environments
• Is competent developing Apex code that will scale to large data sets; has a good understanding of platform behaviors, limits, and performance considerations
• Understands and uses Apex SOAP and REST web services and how to call out from Apex using SOAP and REST
• Implements best practices for trigger development and design patterns, other business logic development, and reuse
• Experience with common integration patterns; experience with integration on the Lightning Platform
• Can use the fundamental programmatic capabilities of the Lightning Platform to develop custom interfaces to extend Salesforce capabilities and develop custom business logic.
• Can extend the Lightning Platform using Apex and Visualforce, and understands Lightning Components
• Knows when to use declarative vs. programmatic methods
• Intermediate strong level of English