Software Engineer (Salesforce Development)

The Software Engineer will help build the Next Gen Applications & Products Suite. Along with writing effective code, the position will be responsible for designing, building, configuring, delivering and maintaining a highly scalable set of applications. The incumbent will use industry best practices and work collaboratively with cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers, test automation team and DevOPS engineers.

• Performs as a key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems
• Actively participates in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study
• Develops high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure
• Writes highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health
• Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintains a team culture of documenting everything
• Tests and ensures quality of all code that developed in line with principles of test-driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical field or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years of experience with developing, configuring and deploying applications on Salesforce Platform.
• 2+ years of experience as a Salesforce Developer working on scalable web applications.
• 2+ year of experience with Lightning development, ideally as part of a Lightning migration
• Experience with Salesforce Sales cloud, Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud 
• Skilled in development of custom applications
• Strong proficiency in Salesforce development, including Apex, Lightning Components, Visualforce, SOQL, SOSL, Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS), Apex Enterprise patterns
• Strong skills in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
• Knowledge of Salesforce data models, security, and performance tuning
• Familiarity with AgentForce, Einstein, CI/CD tools and DevOps practices in a Salesforce environment
• Experience performing unit testing of LWC and APEX code
• Experience in building integrations with Rest API, Platform Events, and Streaming APIs
• Thorough understanding of Salesforce system limits to build at scale
• Ability to identify key issues and details, and present understandable alternatives to both technical and non-technical individuals
• Ability to create and maintain technical documentation to support the testing, installation, operations, deployment and maintenance of products
• Proven ability to effectively present data to facilitate understanding of findings
• Ability to solve complex problems using analytical and creative problem-solving skills for design, development and testing of systems
• Strong knowledge of prevailing technology trends, design patterns and ability to apply those as needed
• Ability to interpret and analyze technology heatmaps and subsequently develop plans to remediate hardware/software nearing End of Life/End of Support
• Competent at adhering to organizational processes and procedures including but not limited to scrum and various design artifacts.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies
• Life-long learner, process improver
• Nice to Have: Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II, Platform App Builder

Base Pay Information

The national base pay range at the end is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental’s assessment of the candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity. 
Pay Grade 21. $80,500 - $174,300

Behind the smile! We are dedicated to safeguarding the health and financial stability of our employees and their loved ones. This commitment extends beyond the workplace to foster personal growth and holistic wellbeing. Our life-changing rewards package includes:

• Competitive base and incentive pay 
• 401(k) with robust matching and non-matching contributions
• Rich medical & pharmacy benefits
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