Description

Software Engineering, SMTS (Salesforce Developer)

The Salesforce Digital Enterprise Technology Finance Engineering team is seeking a talented and experienced developer on the force.com platform, understanding governor limitations and following best practices in writing triggers and apex code. This job requires that you be a self-starter with the ability to take ownership and work in a fast-changing environment. Has wide-ranging experiences, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways. You can interact with other team members to collaborate and deliver quality code. You will need to have strong communication skills, have the ability to grasp a variety of unfamiliar technologies and work in a fast-paced, team-driven environment. You should contribute to innovative ideas and provide feedback on many initiatives within the team’s portfolio.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

An advocate for Salesforce’s core values of Trust, Customer Success, Innovation, and Equality.
Analyzes and evaluates business requirements by working with the finance functional team and management.
Provides recommendations on the nature, scope, and complexity of solutions.
Acts as a leader by developing and documenting technical specifications and project plans for proposed solutions to business requirements of moderate to high complexity.
Develops (codes), tests, documents, educates, and supports the next software solutions.
Support Financial applications, integration points, and work based on the impact on the business. You may coordinate with cross-functional IT departments to resolve issues.
Uses troubleshooting skills to identify, research, and propose solutions to problems and accommodate necessary changes or corrective action, as needed.
Solid understanding of a major technology employed in Salesforce development: Java, Force.com, Front-End technologies (Object-Oriented Javascript, CSS), SOQL.
Aware of and understands trends, technical developments in the broader industry, and how those are applied at Salesforce.
Basic understanding of the architecture of the major functional platform(s) within Finance.
Understanding of data models.
Create and maintain test deliverables and artifacts (test plans, test cases, test results summary) to test complex applications and system integrations for Finance.
Perform test coverage analysis.
Assist in the implementation and maintaining any new QA tools and processes.
Make code changes with a testing mindset.

Required Skills/Experience:

7+ years of experience in developing and designing technical solutions on Salesforce platforms.
Two SFDC certifications.
Strong verbal and written communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
Proven analytical, time-management, and problem-solving skills.
Desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
Ability to use and extend existing code framework to put in place new functionality.
All software engineers must be well versed in Agile Methodology.
Written code that others can understand, support, maintain and expand.
Demonstrated consistent, successful delivery over time.
Knowledge of interdependencies between the Finance functional area and other functional areas, both upstream and downstream.
Manual/Automated functional testing and unit testing. Also, provide code reviews for other engineers on the team.

Desired Skills/Experience:

Experience working as part of a Scrum team practicing Agile development methodologies.
Experience with Mulesoft integrations.
Experience with Tableau development tools.
Knowledge of Apttus CLM is a plus.
Knowledge of accounting principles and financial cloud applications is a big plus.
Experience in working as a global team.
Experience using Source Control Management systems.
Knowledge of Financials ERP is an added advantage.
Knowledge of Python, UNIX Shell scripting