Product Engineer (Salesforce)

SUMMARY:

A contract position has become available for a PRODUCT ENGINEER WITH SALESFORCE to join the technology department of one of our leading clients in the banking sector.

POSITION INFO:

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Title: Product Engineer (Salesforce)
Employment Type: 9 Months Contract (Renewable), Hybrid
Work Location: Johannesburg


DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Salesforce Developer Requirements:


1. Technologies and platforms:

• Salesforce platform, Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Lightning, Salesforce Community, Salesforce Service, Salesforce Sales, customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, VisualForce, Salesforce.com, Salesforce Data Loader.

• Workflows, frameworks, validation rules, IDE, API, Apex classes, Apex triggers, sharing rules, automation, page layouts, Eclipse, custom objects, SDFC, web services, approval processes, dashboards.

• JavaScript, Salesforce Apex, HTML, SQL, CSS, SOQL, Java, Process Builder, Flows, Workflow, Apex classes, Triggers, Web services, Aura Component, LWC, and Visualforce pages for multiple projects by following Salesforce best practices.

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions.
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions.
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience.
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions.
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production).
• Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes.
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services.
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines.
• Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team.
• Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption).

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release).
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks.
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents.

• 3+ years of enterprise level experience in IT.

• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.

• Ability to apply critical thinking & problem-solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well­organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high­performing, scalable, enterprise­grade applications.

• Compensation will be determined based on qualifications, applicable experience, and previous earnings.