Salesforce Developer Sr

About Us

Finance of America helps homeowners 55+ access the equity they’ve built while staying in full control of their home and their financial future. Through a range of reverse mortgage solutions, we help customers shape the retirement they’ve earned while continuing to evolve how we serve and work together.

Joining Finance of America now means stepping into a period of momentum and growth, with teams actively shaping what comes next and opportunities to make an impact and grow your career.

To learn more about us, visit www.financeofamerica.com

Purpose of Role

Plays a key role in coding, testing, and deploying Salesforce solutions.  Works closely with product owners and developers to deliver a high quality experience that meets stakeholder requirements by helping others when needed, providing ideas during the planning/refinement process, and encouraging discussion and collaboration with other developers. 

Expectations

• Designs, codes, tests, and deploys Salesforce solutions, and develops Visualforce pages.
• Documents application development processes and systems, including integrations and 3rd party systems used in conjunction with Salesforce.
• Coordinates enterprise projects, third-party tools, and custom software integrations to build highly scalable, integrated business applications using a variety of tools e.g. Salesforce Lightning, force.com, Apex, Visualforce, data modeling, application programming interfaces (APIs), representational state transfer (RESTful), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) web services, and third party applications.
• Completes user stories and configures solutions to meet user story requirements and best practices in collaboration with business units.
• Provides expertise in enterprise application development and deployment tools and best practices (e.g. source code management, code review/optimization, unit testing, etc.). 
• Analyzes, cleans, transforms, and models data for reporting solutions that meet business needs.
• Resolves and documents escalated technical issues for end users. 
• Follows through on unresolved issues and problems until resolved or further escalated. 
• Remains abreast of technology trends and vendor product roadmaps to determine how they best fit customer demands/requests and leverage delivered functionality.
• Coaches, mentors, and trains more junior Salesforce Developers in internal policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Participates in Scrum teams to build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
• Participates in Agile Scrum ceremonies (e.g. sprint plans, backlog grooming, and retrospective two-week sprints). 
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Reports To

• Manager, Software Development

Direct Reports

• One or none

Qualifications

Qualifications – Education Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or comparable qualifications

Qualifications – Education – Preferred

• Salesforce Developer Certification

Qualifications – Education – Field(s)/Profession(s)

• Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related.

Qualifications – Experience/Skills/Competencies

• Minimum of 4 years of related experience developing complex applications on the Salesforce Platform (e.g. Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, Communities, Force.com, App Exchange, etc.), preferably in a mortgage lending or financial services organization.
• Extensive experience with relational database tools (e.g. MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.).
• Experience with object-oriented design and design patterns to ensure system scalability using applicable coding languages (e.g. Java, Ruby, C#, C++, etc.).
• Experience working with web services (e.g. representational state transfer (RESTful) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)).
• Extensive experience as a Salesforce administrator for a variety of components (e.g. sharing rules, object permissions, permissions sets, user roles, process builder, workflow rules, approval processes, reports, dashboards, web to lead, lightning app builder, etc.).
• Extensive experience with Salesforce