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WM

Principal Salesforce Engineer

WM
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 12 Sept 2025

About the role

As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

WM, a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.

I. Job Summary
Recognized across the organization for functional expertise.  Delivers technical expertise in design, development, coding, testing, debugging and significant enhancements to our Salesforce ecosystem.  Demonstrates broad knowledge of highly complex business processes and capabilities.  Conducts highly complex business process analysis, needs assessments, and leads/participates in design sessions with Architects in order to align information technology solutions with business initiatives.  Undertakes highly complex projects requiring additional specialized technical expertise in software design and testing.  

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities 
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty satisfactorily. Other ancillary duties may be assigned.  

  • Experience architecting Salesforce.com solutions from the ground up
  • Design, develop, test, document, and deploy high quality business solutions on the SFDC platform based on industry best practices as well as business needs
  • Oversees and leads design/coding sessions, develops solutions, and implements solutions. 
  • Articulates Salesforce.com application design and resolves technical/design conflicts as they occur. 
  • Expertise in implementations covering Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Force.com, Chatter & App-exchange applications
  • Expertise in Salesforce core languages: Apex (language, triggers, classes, web services); Visualforce (pages and components); Lightning components and SOQL
  • SFDC Experience working in Visualforce, Lightning/Communities, APEX coding, Process Builder, Triggers, Workflows, Flows, CSS, HTML, Templates, Custom coding and Web Services
  • Lightning development experience including lightning design, components, Aura Framework, JavaScript and Server-side components
  • Experience integrating Salesforce.com with other applications via real-time, batch and sync/async
  • Integration experience using both Web based technologies (Soap, Rest) and Integration/Middleware tools such as MuleSoft, Webmethods etc.
  • Mentors and fosters growth of peers and team members 

III. Supervisory Responsibilities
Will coach and mentor less-experienced analysts and act as team leader on highly complicated systems projects. 

IV. Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.  
  
A. Education and Experience

  • Education: Bachelor’s Degree (accredited) in Computer Science, MIS, or similar area of study, or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four (4) years of relevant work experience. 
  • Experience: Ten (10) years of previous experience required (in addition to education requirement). 

B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements

  • None required.

C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required

Technically advanced knowledge or in-depth skills in one or more of the following is required:

  • Significant knowledge of project management/change management in regards to acquisition/development life cycles.
  • Systems development, implementation, upgrades and analyses.
  • QA testing, catalyst or unified business modeling, system design and analysis.
  • Knowledge of enterprise coding standards.
  • Hands on experience in writing highly complex code.
  • Ability to perform code reviews.
  • Knowledge of software methodologies.
  • Ability to learn new and emerging technologies.
  • Ability to lead a group to consensus, solve problems, and accomplish tasks.
  • Ability to mentor and train less knowledgeable peers and individuals.  
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal).
  • Ability to multitask, meet deadlin

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