Senior Associate, Solution Engineering (Salesforce) – Denver, Colorado or Austin, Texas

Senior Associate, Solution Engineering (Salesforce) – Denver, Colorado or Austin, Texas

Are you a Salesforce developer and would love to be part of the team designing and developing products based on the Western Union Salesforce ‘Orgs’ of our clients, sales, marketing, and operations teams? Are you ready to unleash your potential in a global business that is committed to moving money for the better? Join Western Union as a Senior Associate, Solution Engineering (Salesforce).

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Western Union will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop new solutions within the Salesforce platform, maintain and improve existing software to support critical business functions and meet project objectives, and company goals.

• Ensure that software functionality is implemented with a focus on code optimization and organization.

• Troubleshoot application issues and coordinate issue resolution with operations, functional, and technical teams.

• Work with a software development team and Service providers in a geographically distributed structure.

• Collaborate with various internal departments, including sales, marketing, and operations, to ensure Salesforce environment supports internal needs relating to functionality and performance.

• Provide coaching to Junior Associates and Associates.

• Works independently on complex projects.

• Develop and implement data models, user interfaces, and workflows to automate and improve business processes.

• Conduct unit testing and provide technical documentation for solutions.

• Stay updated with the latest Salesforce features and functionality to ensure the system is utilized to its fullest potential.

Role Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related fields with 4+ years of professional experience, or MS with 3+ years of experience.

• Knowledge and experience in configuring and developing on the Salesforce platform.

• Self-starter with the ability to multi-task, prioritize, manage workload, and consistently deliver results.

• Experience in Agile and Iterative development methodologies.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to interact with partners globally.

Technical areas of expertise

• Refactoring and working effectively with legacy Salesforce configuration code

• Troubleshooting application issues in a complex code base, across widely varying customer ‘orgs’.

• Refactoring and working effectively with legacy Salesforce configuration code.

• Measuring and improving Salesforce application performance.

• Comfortable with a Scrum project management style.

• Full-stack Force.com platform developer: Platform Developer Advanced.

• Experience with Apex Triggers, Batch Classes and @Future Methods, Controllers.

• Calling REST web services from Apex, generating and parsing JSON in Apex

• Visualforce Pages and Components, including Canvas

• Effective Apex unit testing, including web service mocking

• Javascript and jQuery, including effective Javascript design patterns; Javascript unit testing

• In-depth knowledge of Salesforce platform Best Practices, Governor Limits and workarounds

• Be a Salesforce Certified Developer (401)/Platform Developer II (preferred)

We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what’s next.

Western Union is positioned to become the world’s most accessible financial services company —transforming lives and communities. We’re a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

Just as we help our global customers prosper, we support our employees in achieving their professional aspirations. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as receive a great co