Salesforce development lifecycle, including solution design, configuration, code development, testing, and deployment
Responsibilities and Duties:
Participate in key phases of the Salesforce development lifecycle, including solution design, configuration, code development, testing, and deployment.
Translate business requirements to solution design, develop design options & recommendations, review design and code, and manage issues and risks.
Build functionality to improve the performance, security, scalability, and reliability of Yext’s Salesforce platform.
Design and develop functionality ensuring best practices are followed for integration, application development, deployment, data integrity, and ongoing enhancements.
Proactively seek opportunities for process improvement: identify and resolve process bottlenecks, data issues, and inconsistencies to help improve operational efficiencies.
Improve and evolve the Salesforce Lightning Platform, with a focus on improving user experience and performance.
Take ownership of escalated or complex issues and follow through to resolution.
Collaborate with, mentor, and guide the development teams on delivering quality code and test classes.
Qualifications & Skills:
Experience in Core Java, different open-source frameworks, SOA-based SOAP/Rest Web Services; exposure to web application development; deep understanding of web technologies, such as CSS, HTML5, XML, JSON, and Ajax. Experience with Javascript frameworks React, Angular, a plus.
Experience leading technical requirements gathering and building solutions from those requirements; working at scale by reusing components and code to push apps out fast.
Experience with development tools, including Force.com IDE or Illuminated Cloud, Ant migration tool, Github, and others.
Experience with agile methodologies, including scrum and continuous integration environments (Teamcity, Jenkins, etc).
Expert level understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies
Deep and broad knowledge of Salesforce products (Sales Cloud, Community Cloud, CPQ).
Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I & Platform Developer II.
BA/BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
Experience with Salesforce CPQ, & quote to cash processes in a SaaS / recurring revenue company is a big plus.
Ability to work seamlessly as part of a multi-site, multicultural, development and testing team, internal and external resources.
