Senior Salesforce Developer/engineer

At Colibri, culture is a critical part of our collective success, and we live our values everyday: Love, Joy, Boldness, Teamwork and Curiosity. These values guide our interactions with each other, our customers, and the community as a whole.

We have a rich and storied history. Colibri is one of the pioneers of online professional education, introducing some of the first web-based professional education courses in 2001. Today, the company’s family of brands are the leading online professional education platforms in their respective end-markets. We proudly to serve >1 million customers annually and employ more than 1,000 mission-aligned professionals. To learn more, please visit: www.colibrigroup.com

Position Overview: As our Senior Salesforce Engineer, you’ll play a vital role at Colibri Group. We are looking for an individual that will be central to continually improving and enhancing the Salesforce platform for our organization. Our Salesforce instance is of great importance to us, therefore you should keep the wider organization’s best interests in mind composing and deploying any code. 

We are looking for someone who can take ownership of all programmatic requests. You will work alongside our Salesforce Administrator to collaborate on specifications based on stakeholder requirements, validate the proposals, and deliver the solutions. 

What You'll Do

• We are looking for someone who can take ownership of all programmatic requests. You will work alongside our Salesforce Administrator to collaborate on specifications based on stakeholder requirements, validate the proposals, and deliver the solutions
• Collaborating with the Salesforce Administrators to validate business requirements and any considerations (security, scalability, limits),
• Develop Apex (classes and triggers), Visualforce*, (based on specific requirements) to extend Salesforce in order to support business requirements
• Custom User Interface development, including Visualforce* pages/Lightning pages, Aura Components** and Lightning Web Components
• Integrations: Use Salesforce APIs to integrate with other systems used in the organization
• Best Practices: Adhere to Salesforce best practices, maintain code documentation, and write / maintain test classes for all custom development
• Take ownership of release cycles to implement and deploy new/updates to existing applications and code
• Integrating and maintaining business applications to Salesforce, such as [Adobe Commerce, OCD, Conga, Qualtrics, ETC.]
• Collaborating with IT / Developers for other systems in order to integrate across the business
• Supporting the Salesforce Administrator
• Help create and maintain documentation for users, processes, and workflow.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• Experience implementing and developing in Apex, LWC, Visualforce, and Java
• Salesforce Sales and Service Cloud product knowledge and at least 5 years of Salesforce development experience
• Able to work independently
• Able to collaborate and communicate effectively with business stakeholders / other Salesforce team members
• Ability to work as a team, maintain a positive attitude
• Proficient with Microsoft Visual Studio, Salesforce Lightning Design System and the Salesforce development lifecycle.
• IT or Engineering degree
• General web development experience with HTML, CSS, Javascript
• A proactive attitude to Salesforce enhancements and bringing existing code into best practices
• Ability to write, interpret, and critique technical specifications
• Experience working with large data sets and bulkification
• Soft skills: the ability to gather requirements and present solutions to stakeholders.

Desirable

• Additional Salesforce certifications e.g. Certified Salesforce Administrator, Certified Salesforce Platform App Builder, Platform Developer II, JavaScript Developer I, Certified Salesforce Platform Developer
• Competency in other languages / development (XML, Flex, JavaScript, .NET, SQL, C++, SOAP-based web services)
• Demonstrates continued personal/professional development
• Active in the Salesforce community